New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, shed 21 cents to $82.33 dollars.
Brent North Sea crude for December delivery dipped 29 cents to $83.31.
Prices were retreating following a crude rally yesterday, said Serene Lim, oil and gas analyst from ANZ bank in Singapore.
"I think it could likely be profit-taking today," she said of the price fall.
Crude markets had jumped on yesterday on a weaker dollar and lower-than-expected rise in US crude inventories.
Prices were also constrained by the $83 price level, which Lim described as a "very strong resistance level."
Traders were eyeing the release of Asian economic titan China's third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) and industrial production figures for market leads, Lim added.
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