Energy Markets & The Billionaires Behind Them
Live benchmark prices for crude oil, natural gas, petrol, and diesel — and the billionaires whose empires run on refineries, pipelines, and power plants.
Live Energy Prices
| Market | Price (USD) | Today |
|---|---|---|
Crude Oil (WTI) West Texas Intermediate — the US crude oil benchmark. | $71.41per barrel | ▼ 0.93% |
Crude Oil (Brent) Brent — the international crude oil benchmark most of the world prices against. | $76.01per barrel | ▼ 0.38% |
Natural Gas US natural gas futures (Henry Hub). | $2.94per MMBtu | ▼ 2.39% |
Gasoline (Petrol) RBOB gasoline futures — the wholesale price behind what you pay at the pump. | $2.8216per gallon | ▼ 1.58% |
Diesel / Heating Oil Ultra-low-sulfur diesel futures, the benchmark for diesel and heating oil. | $3.5533per gallon | ▼ 0.51% |
Front-month futures prices from Yahoo Finance (NYMEX/ICE), quoted in USD. These are wholesale benchmarks — pump prices add refining margins, distribution, and local taxes on top.
The Energy Billionaires
Reliance Industries operates the world's largest single-site oil refining complex at Jamnagar, India.
The Adani Group spans coal trading and mining, thermal power generation, and one of the world's largest green-energy buildouts.
Built the Dangote Refinery outside Lagos — Africa's largest oil refinery, designed to process 650,000 barrels per day.
Owns Conoil, one of Nigeria's largest indigenous oil exploration and fuel-marketing companies.
Koch Industries' Flint Hills Resources refines and markets fuels across the United States.
Hancock Prospecting's iron-ore fortune extends into energy, including the takeover of gas producer Senex Energy with POSCO.
Kingdom Holding's fortune is rooted in Saudi Arabia's oil-driven economy and includes stakes across global markets.
Why oil prices move billionaire rankings
Refining margins, energy stock prices, and commodity cycles feed directly into these fortunes. When crude spikes, refiners and producers swing in opposite directions — which is why a move in Brent can reshuffle the wealth rankings from Mumbai to Lagos. Where a fortune runs through a listed company (like Reliance Industries), we price it live; private empires use static estimates from public reporting.