Crude oil tops $107 - UPI.com NEW YORK, March 9 (UPI) -- Crude oil prices climbed higher Friday morning in New York, topping $107 per barrel in response to an upswing in equities. April delivery light sweet crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange added 85 cents to reach $107.43 per barrel. Home heating oil shed 0.53 cents to $3.2642 per gallon. Reformulated gasoline added 1.7 cents to $3.3157 per gallon. Henry Hub natural gas prices lost 0.4 cents to $2.268 per million British thermal units. After three days of declines, the national average price of unleaded gasoline was unchanged Friday, holding at $3.758 per gallon, AAA said.