Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
India’s Crude Oil Benchmark Tops $100 as Middle East War Escalates
What the source reported
Source-reportedIndia’s average crude import price soared to above $100 per barrel at the end of last week and is set to further rise this week as international crude prices rallied amid intensified hostilities in the Middle East. The so-called Crude Oil FOB Price, or the Indian Basket of average sweet and sour grades, surged to $101.07 per barrel on Friday, topping the $ 100-a-barrel threshold for the first time since May, data by the Indian Oil Ministry’s Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) showed. The Indian basket of crude oil is the average…
- Publication
- Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
- Published
- 7th September 2026
- Original report
- oilprice.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 7th September 2026 · 14:02
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
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Initial Significance Moderate (25.0/100). Strongest contributor: Geographic Breadth (7.0/10 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Low (26.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Geographic Breadth
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity