Reuters | Total's North Sea oil platforms hit by 24-hour strike Reuters Forties and Brent Blend are key oil grades used to set the dated Brent benchmark that prices over half of the world's oil trades. Brent futures LCOc1 were 77 cents higher at $73.84 a barrel by 0936 GMT. Gas traders said the strike had curbed flows to ... Union workers begin 24-hour strike on Total's North Sea oil platforms |