Brent rrose 46 cents, or 0.6%, to $82.38 a barrel, WTI gained 47 cents, or 0.6%, to $78.03.

Brent rose 15 cents to $83.11 a barrel, WTI rose 18 cents to $79.31 a barrel.

These voluntary cuts are calculated from the 2024 required production level as per the 35th OPEC Ministerial Meeting held on June 4, 2023, and are in addition to the voluntary cuts previously announced in April 2023 and later extended until the end of 2024.

These curbs on supply have helped prop up the price of crude for the past 18 months but left Saudi Arabia, which has cut its production by 2mn barrels a day, shouldering most of the cost.

Brent fell 3 cents to $82.77 a barrel, WTI fell 11 cents, to $78.63.

Brent fell 30 cents, or 0.36%, to $83.35 a barrel, WTI dropped 28 cents to $78.59 a barrel.

Deputy Prime Minister and OPEC+ envoy Alexander Novak drove home the official line that sanctions make Russia stronger when he said in October, referring to the redirection of exports, "the main consumption of energy resources will in future be in [the Asia-Pacific] region... We would have to do this anyway. We just sped up a bit."

Brent fell 35 cents, or 0.4%, to $81.27 a barrel, WTI declined 35 cents, or 0.5%, to $76.14 a barrel.

The US placed Arctic LNG 2 under direct sanctions in November, in effect blocking its allies from buying the project’s gas when it starts production. The move followed an EU ban on the transfer of LNG-related technology to Russia in April 2022, two months after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

At the start of the month,we saw #Crudeoil longs data jump 17%, partly offsetting wrong-footed sales the previous week.Russia stated that the cut of 500k b/d to meet the quota expectations for the month of February as part of a package of cuts promised by the OPEC+.