ANCIENT ENERGY. FRESH PERSPECTIVE. Fossil fuel markets, with a little more character.
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Tiny arms.

Follow the fuels that move the world.
Real market data. A delightfully prehistoric perspective.

16 benchmarks. Millions of years in the making.
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THE FOSSIL FUEL FORECAST
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16 markets with locally stored prices. History and updates are served from our archive.

THE SNOT SHOT

Price archive

Locally stored observations

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Sniffing out the numbers…
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DIG INTO THE DETAILS

Meet the fossil family16

Explore the markets in our saved price archive.

Futures, CFDs & daily spot prices
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Real data. No Jurassic guesswork.

A few million years of energy.
A world of price history.

Take the time machine for a spin. See where your favorite fuels have been.

THE TIME MACHINE

Let’s dig up the past.

Explore daily prices for any date range in our archive. Available history varies by market; some benchmarks do not yet have a connected feed.

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THE FIELD GUIDE

A little fuel for thought.

🛢 Crude, explained

WTI is a U.S. oil benchmark; Brent is a global benchmark tied to North Sea crude. Both are quoted in U.S. dollars per barrel. One barrel is 42 U.S. gallons.

🔥 A different kind of energy

Henry Hub natural gas is quoted per million British thermal units (MMBtu). Gasoline and heating oil futures are quoted per gallon. Compare mode shows percentage performance so different units can share a chart.

🦕 About the dinosaur thing…

Most petroleum formed from ancient marine organisms, including algae and plankton, buried and transformed over millions of years. Rex is here for the vibes, not the geology.

Explore the science at the EIA ↗
NO JURASSIC GUESSWORK

Know your numbers.

Our local price archive

Every price and chart comes from observations saved in our database. Markets appear only after data has been collected. Biquote supplies WTI, Brent, and natural-gas CFD quotes; Yahoo Finance supplies the separate futures archive. EIA provides eight daily spot benchmarks, including diesel, jet fuel, and propane. Spot, futures, and CFD series are labeled and kept separate. No sample prices or estimated gaps are used.

U.S. Energy Information Administration open data ↗

Reading the charts

Short ranges use stored intraday observations where available. Longer ranges use the daily archive. EIA prices are daily spot observations and have no open, high, low, or volume fields; these charts use lines or areas. All observation dates are UTC. Missing observations are omitted. Each chart shows its saved date range and observation count. A shorter or sparse archive is shown as it is.

Comparisons & contracts

CFD day changes use the provider’s daily open and are hidden for stale or closed markets. Futures and spot changes use the previous saved daily observation. Comparisons align common observations and start each market at 0%. Add up to four comparison markets. Moving averages use displayed observations. TTF is quoted in EUR per MWh; other markets use USD in the unit shown. No exchange-rate conversion is applied. Front-month futures roll between contracts and are not spot prices or adjusted continuous return series.

Updates & publication delays

The page checks our database every 15 seconds. The scheduler collects CFD quotes every 15 seconds, intraday futures every five minutes, and daily futures hourly. EIA spot data refreshes daily at 22:15 UTC, with a ten-year initial import and a monthly archive refresh. EIA publishes after the observation date; these are not live quotes. Observation dates remain visible, and EIA observations older than ten days are flagged. Other daily observations are flagged after four days; intraday futures after 30 minutes. If an import fails, the last successful observations stay available.