Crude oil prices on Tuesday finished down in the U.S. and up in Europe.
West Texas Intermediate crude fell 13 cents or 0.24% to finish the day at $53.34 a barrel in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Global benchmark Brent crude for March delivery finished up 92 cents at $56.58 a barrel for a gain of 1.65% in the ICE Futures Europe..
Tuesday’s trading of Oklahoma energy stocks resulted in two extremes…one a gainer…the other a loser.
SandRidge Energy Inc. saw prices increase 36 cents a share for a gain of more than 9% for the day as stock settled at $4.20.
On the opposite side was Chesapeake Energy where shares fell 77 cents for a loss of nearly 16% as prices finished the day at $4.08.
Other Oklahoma energy firms had respectable showings. Among them, Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. whose stock had a more than 7.5% gain as prices increased 38 cents and finished at $5.42.
Chevron (CVX) up 1.74 at 93.34 – change 1.89%
Concho Resources (CXO) up 2.99 at 69.19 – change 4.51%
ConocoPhillips (COP) up 2.06 at 47.42 – change 4.54%
Diamondback Energy (FANG) up 4.57 at 62.87 – change 7.83%
Energy Transfer LP (ET) up 0.31 at 7.14 – change 4.53%
Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) up 0.64 at 22.41 – change 2.93%
EOG Resources (EOG) up 2.83 at 62.44 – change 4.74%
ExxonMobil (XOM) up 1.04 at 47.88 – change 2.22%
Kinder Morgan (KMI) up 0.47 at 15.21 – change 3.18%
Marathon Oil Corp. (MRO) up 0.75 at 8.39 – change 9.81%
National Oilwell Varco (NOV) up 0.64 at 16.00 – change 4.16%
Occidental Petroleum (OXY) up 2.54 at 22.62 – change 12.64%
Parsley Energy (PE) up 0.52 at 16.93 – change 3.16%
Phillips 66 (PSX) up 1.47 at 73.73 – change 2.03%
Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) up 3.70 at 135.12 – change 2.81%
Valero (VLO) up 0.87 at 59.51 – change 1.48%
CLOSING TOP UTILITY STOCKS
American Electric Power (AEP) down 0.94 at 77.84 – change 1.19%
CenterPoint (CNP) down 0.09 at 20.70 – change 0.44%
Entergy (ETR) down 1.69 at 92.70 – change 1.80%