Chemical tanker Nordic Sound passes silos at the Total petrochemical plant at the Port of Le Havre in Le Havre, France. Picture: BLOOMBERG/NATHAN LAINE
Brent futures were up 45 US cents, or 0.9%, at $49.06 a barrel by 2.45am GMT, after rising around 1.6% in the previous session. West Texas Intermediate crude was up by 34c, or 0.7%, at $46.05 a barrel, having gained 1.8% on Wednesday. Encouraging vaccine results are “pushing aside concerns of enduring containment measures and prompting some follow-through buying from the speculative community”, Citigroup Global Markets said in a note.US oil stockpiles fell 754,000 barrels last week, data showed, while analysts in a Reuters poll had predicted a 127,000-barrel rise. Stockpiles at the Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery point for WTI, fell by 1.7-million barrels.
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