Brent rose 77 cents, or 1.94%, at $40.49 a barrel, WTI gained 61 cents, or 1.64%, to $37.73 a barrel.

Spending is also expected to be largely flat in 2021, landing only marginally higher than 2020 at $386 billion. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, expected total upstream investment would maintain last year’s levels, both in 2020 and 2021.

Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to decrease 93,000 b/d month-over-month in June from 7,725 to 7,632 thousand barrels/day, gas production to decrease 693 million cubic feet/day from 81,254 to 80,561 million cubic feet/day .

The government of South Africa has approved the merger of three oil and gas subsidiaries of the state-owned Central Energy Fund (CEF) into a National Oil Company.

Brent was down 15 cents, or 0.4%, at $38.58 a barrel, WTI was down 49 cents, or 1.3%, at $35.77.

Crude oil throughput at China's domestic refineries further recovered to 13.69 million b/d

Iraq pumped 4.213 million b/d of crude oil in May, above its OPEC+ quota of 3.592 million b/d and exported 3.63 million b/d, oil marketer SOMO said on June 7.

“[Fossil] energy loans at the country’s six largest lenders jumped 23% to C$71.6 billion in their fiscal second quarter from the prior period,” Bloomberg reports, citing the banks’ financial disclosures. “Toronto-Dominion Bank had the largest increase at 29%, while Bank of Nova Scotia remained the biggest lender, with $21.6 billion in loans.”

U.S. Rig Count is down 5 rigs from last week to 279, Canada Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 21

Brent fell 3.4%, or $1.42, to $40.31 a barrel, WTI dropped 4%, or $1.60, to $38 a barrel,