NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices rose Friday to more than $37 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange in a holiday-shortened trading week.

Crude oil prices gained $2.41 to $37.78 per barrel, after falling to $35.35 Wednesday.


Heating oil prices rose 0.009 cents Friday to $1.254 per gallon. Reformulated blendstock gasoline rose 0.0208 cents to 84.35 cents per gallon. Natural gas prices fell 0.02 cents to $5.89 per million British thermal units.

At the pump, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline fell to $1.642 Friday, from Thursday's $1.648 a gallon, AAA said.