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United States Oil Fund, LP – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/17 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Wednesday, 2/28/18, at 3:24pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/17   ·   Accession #:  1144204-18-11712   ·   File #:  1-32834

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size             Issuer                      Filing Agent

 2/28/18  United States Oil Fund, LP        10-K       12/31/17   50:4.3M                                   Toppan Merrill/FA

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-K        Annual Report                                       HTML    769K 
 2: EX-23.1     Consent of Experts or Counsel                       HTML     17K 
 3: EX-23.2     Consent of Experts or Counsel                       HTML     16K 
 4: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
 5: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
 6: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     17K 
 7: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     17K 
14: R1          Document And Entity Information                     HTML     46K 
15: R2          Statements of Financial Condition                   HTML     81K 
16: R3          Condensed Schedule of Investments                   HTML    201K 
17: R4          Condensed Schedule of Investments (Parenthetical)   HTML     82K 
18: R5          Statements of Operations                            HTML     62K 
19: R6          Statements of Changes in Partners' Capital          HTML     34K 
20: R7          Statements of Changes in Partners' Capital          HTML     21K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
21: R8          Statements of Cash Flows                            HTML     67K 
22: R9          Organization and Business                           HTML     34K 
23: R10         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     35K 
24: R11         Fees Paid by the Fund and Related Party             HTML     28K 
                Transactions                                                     
25: R12         Contracts and Agreements                            HTML     51K 
26: R13         Financial Instruments, Off-Balance Sheet Risks and  HTML     31K 
                Contingencies                                                    
27: R14         Financial Highlights                                HTML     57K 
28: R15         Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited)                HTML     47K 
29: R16         Fair Value of Financial Instruments                 HTML     70K 
30: R17         Recent Accounting Pronouncements                    HTML     20K 
31: R18         Subsequent Events                                   HTML     19K 
32: R19         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     68K 
                (Policies)                                                       
33: R20         Contracts and Agreements (Tables)                   HTML     38K 
34: R21         Financial Highlights (Tables)                       HTML     56K 
35: R22         Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited) (Tables)       HTML     47K 
36: R23         Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Tables)        HTML     70K 
37: R24         Organization and Business (Additional Information)  HTML     44K 
                (Detail)                                                         
38: R25         Summary of Significant Accounting Policies          HTML     25K 
                (Additional Information) (Detail)                                
39: R26         Fees Paid by the Fund and Related Party             HTML     37K 
                Transactions (Additional Information) (Detail)                   
40: R27         Contracts and Agreements (Brokerage Commission)     HTML     25K 
                (Detail)                                                         
41: R28         Contracts and Agreements (Additional Information)   HTML     64K 
                (Detail)                                                         
42: R29         Financial Instruments, Off-Balance Sheet Risks and  HTML     23K 
                Contingencies (Additional Information) (Detail)                  
43: R30         Financial Highlights (Per share Performance Data    HTML     35K 
                and Other Supplemental Financial Data) (Detail)                  
44: R31         Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited) (Summarized    HTML     31K 
                (Unaudited) Quarterly Financial Information)                     
                (Detail)                                                         
45: R32         Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Valuation of   HTML     37K 
                Securities Using Fair Value Hierarchy) (Detail)                  
46: R33         Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Fair Value of  HTML     23K 
                Derivative Instruments) (Detail)                                 
47: R34         Fair Value of Financial Instruments (Effect of      HTML     28K 
                Derivative Instruments on Statements of                          
                Operations) (Detail)                                             
49: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     82K 
48: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     49K 
 8: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- uso-20171231                        XML   1.43M 
10: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- uso-20171231_cal                XML     72K 
11: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- uso-20171231_def                 XML    522K 
12: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- uso-20171231_lab                      XML    714K 
13: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- uso-20171231_pre               XML    581K 
 9: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- uso-20171231                          XSD    146K 
50: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001144204-18-011712-xbrl      Zip     95K 


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