Brent rose 98 cents, or 1.4%, to $72.05 a barrel, WTI climbed 93 cents, or 1.4%, to $68.35 a barrel.

OPEC, Russia and nine other countries agreed in July to increase crude production by 400,000 b/d starting August through the end of 2022, a quantity that many analysts said would be insufficient to meet demand in the short-term, given seasonal consumption patterns and the world's recovery from the pandemic.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 3.0 million barrels from the previous week to 432.6 million barrels.

Brent was down 71 cents, or 1%, at $71.54 a barrel, WTI was down 77 cents, or 1.10%, at $67.59 a barrel.

In the first half of 2021, the fund returned 9.4 percent, equivalent to 990 billion kroner.

Saudi Aramco net income: $25.5 billion (Q2) / $47.2 billion (H1)

Preliminary production figures for July 2021 show an average daily production of 2 035 000 barrels of oil, NGL and condensate.

The reported net profit after tax of US$354 million includes net gains on asset sales and is significantly higher than the corresponding period mainly due to impairments included in the previous half-year result.

U.S. Rig Count is up 3 from last week to 503, Canada Rig Count is down 8 from last week to 156.

Brent dropped 9 cents, or 0.1%, to $70.96 a barrel, WTI fell 19 cents, or 0.3%, to $67.35.

The report projects that in the coming decades climate changes will increase in all regions. For 1.5°C of global warming, there will be increasing heat waves, longer warm seasons and shorter cold seasons. At 2°C of global warming, heat extremes would more often reach critical tolerance thresholds for agriculture and health, the report shows.

Brent fell by $2.43, or 3.5%, to $68.27 a barrel, WTI fell by $2.43, or 3.5%, to $68.27 a barrel.

The article proposes a solution to the problems of consumer protection and competition in the renewable energy market, which contradict the UNCTAD policy and the laws of the states parties to the UNFCCC framework convention, but are not discussed or resolved by them.

The 19 countries with quotas under the OPEC+ deal produced 35.99 million b/d in July, despite having a collective ceiling of 36.34 million b/d.

The Worldwide Rig Count for July was 1,380, up 55 from the 1,325 counted in June 2021,