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Brent were up 31 cents, or 0.6%, to $54.27 a barrel, WTI were up 21 cents or 0.4% to $49.82 a barrel

"Any overreaction...is not in the interest of the general public, let alone the oil market. We have the consensus that we would not like to see this."

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz "thoroughly discussed" the current oil market conditions as prices have fallen by more than 20% in the past three weeks amid global oil demand concerns, a Kremlin statement said late Monday.

Gas demand across Europe has been unseasonably weak in January due to warm weather, with the month also seeing a re-routing of Russian gas exports to Europe with the start-up of the TurkStream gas pipeline to Turkey replacing some flows via Ukraine.

When replacing hard coal, natural gas achieves an immediate 50 percent reduction of CO2 emissions.

In 2018, while production was increasing, the total number of wells producing crude oil and natural gas in the United States fell to 982,000, down from a peak of 1,035,000 wells in 2014.

China imported 14.91 million mt of propane in 2019, up 10.8% or 1.45 million mt from 2018

India’s coal import increased by 7.6 per cent to 185.88 million tonnes (MT) in the April-December period of the current fiscal.