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Crude oil spot price: Alaska North Slope, West Coast
$96.92/bbl
as of September 2026 · daily · spot price
▲ 0.9% vs prior · ▲ 41.2% vs a year earlier
Series oil_price.ans_wc.spot
History since 2000
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Chart shows monthly averages; the table below is the raw data.
Recent values
| Date | Crude oil spot price |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-04 | $96.92/bbl |
| 2026-09-03 | $96.09/bbl |
| 2026-09-02 | $93.60/bbl |
| 2026-09-01 | $93.29/bbl |
| 2026-08-31 | $90.77/bbl |
| 2026-08-28 | $89.34/bbl |
| 2026-08-27 | $89.55/bbl |
| 2026-08-26 | $88.03/bbl |
| 2026-08-25 | $87.68/bbl |
| 2026-08-24 | $91.15/bbl |
| 2026-08-21 | $92.88/bbl |
| 2026-08-20 | $92.33/bbl |
| 2026-08-19 | $91.20/bbl |
| 2026-08-18 | $90.92/bbl |
| 2026-08-17 | $90.54/bbl |
| 2026-08-14 | $87.96/bbl |
| 2026-08-13 | $86.78/bbl |
| 2026-08-12 | $88.27/bbl |
| 2026-08-11 | $83.98/bbl |
| 2026-08-10 | $83.11/bbl |
| 2026-08-07 | $78.54/bbl |
| 2026-08-06 | $78.49/bbl |
| 2026-08-05 | $76.04/bbl |
| 2026-08-04 | $71.99/bbl |
Related series
- ANS price, DOR forecast — Alaska North Slope, West CoastWhat Alaska North Slope crude actually sold for, against the price the state's budget is built on. The gap is the fiscal upside or the hole, and it is only visible continuously because both sides are collected here daily.
- ANS crude production — ANSPrice times volume is the whole of Alaska's petroleum revenue. Watching one without the other tells half the story.
- Crude oil spot price — BrentANS is priced off Brent, so the spread between them is the Alaska premium or discount rather than a separate market.
- Crude oil spot price — BrentANS WC trades around Brent. History p0.5–p99.5 spread = [-10.26, +10.72] (n=3,416 shared days, computed 2026-09-01) — wider than the "within a few dollars" folklore. Outside the band: bad parse, or a dislocation worth a story either way.
Crude oil spot price elsewhere
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About this data
Daily spot prices for Alaska North Slope crude (West Coast delivered) alongside WTI, Brent, and Henry Hub — the price side of Alaska's oil-revenue equation. ANS WC is *the* price that drives state petroleum revenue (production taxes and royalties are computed from it), so it's the natural pairing with TAPS throughput for a "volume × price" narrative. History back to June 1996 from the Dept. of Revenue's Tax Division. Headline series: ANS West Coast $/bbl.
Known issues & gotchas
- ASP.NET WebForms postback scrape. The date-range query requires a POST carrying
__VIEWSTATEand__EVENTVALIDATIONtokens harvested from a prior GET of the form page. Straightforward two-step scrape, but brittle if the page's control names change — snapshot raw HTML responses. Verified field names (2026-08-27):ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtstart/txtend(M/D/YYYY) /btnload; the data table isid="ContentPlaceHolder1_Table1", columns Date | ANS West Coast | West Texas Intermediate | Henry Hub | Brent | ANS Production. - History actually starts 2000-09-01, not 1996 — a full-range query from 6/1/1996 returns its first row at 9/1/2000. The landing page's "history to 1996" claim doesn't survive contact with the data.
- The table carries daily ANS production too (barrels/day, from tax records) — present for *every* calendar day, while prices print on trading days only (blank
<td>cells on weekends/holidays; parse blanks as gaps, never zeros). This one table therefore also covers the "AK DOR ANS production" dataset — no separateansold.aspxscrape needed for the daily series. - Full backfill is a single POST: the whole 2000-09→present range returns ~9,500