Light, sweet crude for September delivery rose 95 cents to settle at $73.33 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after trading over $74 earlier, and September natural gas fell 7.6 cents to settle at $6.864 per 1,000 cubic feet after rising more than 21 cents earlier.

September gasoline rose 3.5 cents to settle at $2.0088 a gallon, and Nymex heating oil futures rose 4.44 cents to $2.0269 a gallon.

At the pump, meanwhile, the average national price of a gallon of gas fell 0.5 cent overnight to $2.762, according to AAA and the Oil Price Information Service. — tulsaworld