Dubai Crude is generally used for pricing Persian Gulf crude oil exports to Asia. The Dubai benchmark is also known as Fateh is used in the United Arab Emirates. Forward trade of Dubai Crude is limited to one or two months.
Dubai Crude is a light oil. It has a gravity of 31° API (specific gravity of 0.871) and a sulfur content of 2%/weight Supplement 3 (1997), Oil Trading Manual, Long, D. (Ed.), Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing Limited.