The "three places" in the crude oil of the three places refer to Brent, Dubai and Thaksin. Brent crude oil is produced in Brent area of the North Atlantic, and its futures are traded on the London Intercontinental Exchange and the American Mercantile Exchange. Dubai crude oil is a kind of crude oil produced in the United Arab Emirates, which is specially used to price crude oil exported from the Middle East to Asia. Thaksin crude oil is a crude oil produced in Indonesia and transshipped through Thaksin Port, an oil port in northern sunda strait between Java Island and Sumatra Island in Indonesia.