Brent was down 2 cents at $93.25 a barrel, WTI fell 47 cents, or 0.5%, to $91.84 a barrel.

State-run oil giant Rosneft signed a 10-year supply deal with China's CNPC for supplies of 100 million mt, or 200,821 b/d, of crude. Russia's Gazprom signed a 10 Bcm/year gas supply deal with CNPC which will see Gazprom's pipeline supplies to China reach 48 Bcm.

The Worldwide Rig Count for January was 1,632, up 69 from the 1,563 counted in December 2021,and up 449 from the 1,183 counted in January 2021.

U.S. Rig Count is up 3 from last week to 613 , Canada Rig Count is up 1 from last week to 218.

Brent was up 47 cents/b (0.52%) from the previous close at $91.58/b, WTI rose 63 cents/b (0.7%) at $90.90/b.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 1.0 million barrels from the previous week to 415.1 million barrels.

Brent was down 43 cents/b (0.48%) from the previous close to $89.04/b, WTI fell 60 cents/b (0.68%) at $87.66/b.

Reconfirm the production adjustment plan and the monthly production adjustment mechanism approved at the 19th ONOMM and the decision to adjust upward the monthly overall production by 0.4 mb/d for the month of March 2022.

Brent crude rose 11 cents, or 0.1%, to $89.27 a barrel, WTI was up 14 cents, or 0.2%, at $88.34 a barrel.

Demand is expected to surpass pre-pandemic levels in the second half of the year "with a healthy recovery trend," the analysis showed, easing the market oversupply to 1.2 million b/d in the third quarter and 1.1 million b/d in the fourth.

Brent was down 74 cents, or 0.8%, at $88.52 a barrel , WTI slipped 83 cents, or 0.9%, to $87.32.

Already, oil prices have hit seven-year highs in recent days over the ratcheting tensions between the West and Russia over Ukraine.

Federal oil exports in January dropped to 3.203 million b/d from 3.277 million b/d in December, according to the ministry figures.

Brent futures contract was up $1.30/b (1.44%) from the previous close at $91.33/b, WTI rose $1.21/b (1.39%) at $88.03/b.

Oil, gas and resources companies, and trading desks, are fretting about the provisions around sanctions on Russian extractive industries, financial institutions and banks, Russian leaders and businessmen, and the use of global services, such as wire transfers.