Crude Oil Prices (WTI) from 2000 to 2026

20+ years of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price data. The dataset is hosted on Kaggle and covers the period from 2000 to 2026. The specific source, author, and update frequency are not provided in the input metadata.

Use Cases

• Forecasting future crude oil prices based on historical time-series data.
• Analyzing long-term trends and volatility in energy markets.
• Building economic indicators based on commodity price movements.
• Backtesting trading strategies using historical WTI price data.

Strengths

• Covers a 26-year time range from 2000 to 2026.
• Focuses on a major global benchmark, West Texas Intermediate (WTI).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Kaggle; original authoritative source is unknown.

Collection Method

Collection method is unknown.

Time Range

2000 to 2026

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Global (WTI is a global benchmark); specific geographic coverage is not detailed.