The price of Kuwaiti oil went up by 59 cents to reach $68.00 per barrel (pb) on Tuesday, compared with $67.41 pb on Monday, said the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, on Wednesday. According to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) cited by WAM, the price of the Brent crude future contracts went up by 81 cents to settle at $67.20 pb, the same case with the West Texas Intermediate, which went up 59 cents to $61.11 pb.