The final boost will come in August. By then, OPEC+ will be running out of spare production capacity.

Brent rose $1.23, or 1.1%, to $115.36 a barrel, WTI rose $1.57, or 1.4%, to $111.13.

Although there are still some Russian crude supplies tied to quarterly and half-yearly term contracts, South Korea will eventually halt Russian oil purchases

Brent rose 42 cents, or 0.4%, to $113.54 a barrel, WTI was at $109.85 a barrel, up 29 cents, or 0.3%.

Non-sanctioning countries including India and China have significantly increased imports of Russian oil since the invasion began Feb. 24, taking advantage of major price discounts.

Crude imports rose 55% from a year ago to 8.42 million tons, with Russia overtaking Saudi Arabia as China’s main source of oil, according to customs data released on Monday.

Gazprom's gas supplies to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from January 1 to June 15, 2022, increased by 55.5 per cent compared to the same period of 2021.

Brent was up $1.13, or 0.9%, to $120.94 a barrel, WTI gained $1.03, or 0.9%, to $118.62.

Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman met Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Thursday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, a flagship conference that almost all Western officials and business executives are avoiding this year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

In the worst-case scenario where the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany is shut totally, Europe will fail to reach storage levels the European Union has ordered by the start of the heating season in November. And the region could run out of stocks completely by January.