Entity

Oil

Crude oil; the world's most-traded commodity, setting the base cost of fuel, transport, and industry.

As of 2 Nov 2026Last evidence 2 Nov 2026

What is happening now

  • Sensex jumps 765 points during early trade on sharp rally in Reliance shares, decline in oil prices

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Ukraine defies Trump to resume attacks on Russian oil refineries

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Iran War Hikes EU’s Oil Import Bill By $11 Billion Per Month

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Houthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Saudi Oil Refineries and Aramco Facilities

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • UK Budget Signals Wave of New North Sea Oil and Gas Drilling

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 12 events and claims involving Oil

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 422 mentions on 1 Nov 2026, against 296 on 11 Oct 2026 (+43%).
  • State Last recorded change: coverage state went from rising to steady on 1 Nov 2026 (3 changes recorded since 20 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 1 Nov 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Crude Oil reach a new all-time high by December 31?” moved from 12% to 18% Yes since 17 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

13,624 documents · 631 publishers · 8% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 2 Nov 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.08: about 92% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Oil

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IranTrumpHormuzMiddle EastUnited StatesRussiaSaudi ArabiaInflationChina
  • Iran · 5,663 shared documents
  • Trump · 3,938 shared documents
  • Hormuz · 3,508 shared documents
  • Middle East · 3,470 shared documents
  • Oil Prices · 3,350 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United States · 2,959 shared documents
  • Russia · 2,800 shared documents
  • Saudi Arabia · 2,797 shared documents
  • Inflation · 2,696 shared documents
  • China · 2,547 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 422 mentions on 1 Nov 2026 with 296 on 11 Oct 2026 (+43%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +28% from 17 Sept 2026 to 1 Nov 2026, between 162 and 546 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Oil, day by day.

Market price, cited

18% Yes

priced 2 Nov 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 12% → 18% Yes (+6pts, from 17 Sept 2026 to 2 Nov 2026)

on “Will Crude Oil reach a new all-time high by December 31?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Oil

“Will Crude Oil reach a new all-time high by December 31?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

On the desk: Energy Desk

For developers

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Events involving Oil

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Sensex jumps 765 points during early trade on sharp rally in Reliance shares, decline in oil prices

    Reported claim · first reported 2 Nov 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Ukraine defies Trump to resume attacks on Russian oil refineries

    Reported claim · first reported 30 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Iran War Hikes EU’s Oil Import Bill By $11 Billion Per Month

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Houthis Claim Fresh Strikes on Saudi Oil Refineries and Aramco Facilities

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • UK Budget Signals Wave of New North Sea Oil and Gas Drilling

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • 11 EU countries vow to release 42.6 million barrels of oil after G7 pledge

    Reported claim · first reported 29 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Trump terminates Biden-era methane rules putting Africa’s $101.75 billion oil and gas market in focus

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Stock markets end largely unchanged amid elevated crude oil prices, selling in bank stocks

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Saudi oil infrastructure in crosshairs as Houthis claim Ras Tanura strike

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Oil tops $114 as traders brace for Iran escalation after US midterms

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Houthis claim ballistic missile attack on oil refinery in eastern Saudi Arabia

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Sensex, Nifty open flat in green as investors track crude oil prices, US Fed policy decision

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

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Oil

Entity.

Evidence
13,624 documents · 631 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 4 Apr 2026, last seen 2 Nov 2026
Measured
8% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
2 Nov 2026
23 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (1)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Oil, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Oil

Markets whose question is about Oil or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Oil and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

1 more open market joined to Oil but not about it
  • 91% Yes

    “Will Marathon Petroleum (MPC) beat quarterly earnings?”

    Polymarket · priced 2 Nov 2026

    Relation: mentioned only in passing · the name does not appear as a word in the question; the record joined it another way · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 1 Nov 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 29 Oct 2026

  • 29 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to rising

    Previous state held since 28 Oct 2026

  • 28 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

3 changes recorded since 20 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about OilWatch Oil

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 2 Nov 2026.