Current price of oil as of April 23, 2026

By 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil had reached $103.67 per barrel, measured using the Brent benchmark. That’s $2.53 more than it cost yesterday morning and about $37.50 above its price a year earlier.

	Oil price per barrel	% Change
Price of oil yesterday	$101.14	+2.50%
Price of oil 1 month ago	$112.77	-8.06%
Price of oil 1 year ago	$66.19	+56.62%

Will oil prices go up?