The Worldwide Rig Count for February was 1,669, up 37 from the 1,632 counted in January 2022,and up 399 from the 1,270 counted in February 2021.

U.S. Rig Count is unchanged from last week at 650, Canada Rig Count is down 7 from last week to 217.

Brent rose at $111.19, WTI rose $1.21, or 1.1%, to $108.88.

he initial release of 60 mbl accounts for 4% of those stockpiles (1.5 Gbl) and would represent 2 mbl/d for 30 days

Brent was up $2.18, or 1.9%, at $115.11 a barrel, WTI hit a high of $116.57.

Reconfirm the production adjustment plan and the monthly production adjustment mechanism approved at the 19th Ministerial Meeting and the decision to adjust upward the monthly overall production by 0.4 mb/d for the month of April 2022, as per the attached schedule.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 2.6 million barrels from the previous week to 413.4 million barrels.

Brent rose by as much as $8 and touched as high as $113.02 a barrel, before easing to $111.75, WTI were up $7.24, or 7%, to $110.67 a barrel.

OPEC+ members are attempting to regain pre-pandemic output levels by late 2022 through their monthly easing of quotas, but potential disruptions to Russian oil flows put that plan at risk.

Russia and India in December signed new energy cooperation agreements, including a contract for Rosneft to ship almost 15 million barrels of crude to India in 2022, according to government and company statements.