Brent rose 22 cents, or 0.3%, to $86.35 per barrel, WTI climbed 13 cents, or 0.2%, to $80.26 per barrel.

Brent was down 11 cents, or 0.1%, to $87.52, WTI fell 8 cents, or 0.1%, to $81.56 a barrel.

Dutch front-month futures, were 0.2% lower at €66.80 a megawatt-hour by 8:58 a.m. in Amsterdam, after rising as much as 3.1% earlier.

U.S. Rig Count is down 4 from last week to 771, Canada Rig Count is up 14 from last week to 241.

Brent gained 26 cents, or 0.3%, to $86.42 a barrel, WTI advanced 43 cents to $80.76 per barrel.

Dutch front-month futures, Europe’s gas benchmark, were 2.8% lower at €59 a megawatt-hour by 8:29 a.m. in Amsterdam.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 8.4 million barrels to 448.0 million barrels.

Brent climbed 76 cents, or 0.88%, to $86.68 a barrel, WTI went up 85 cents, or 1.06%, to $81.03.

The region’s storage sites are around 81% full, some 20 percentage points above the five-year average. That’s providing confidence that Europe will end the winter with inventories over 50% and “more than enough gas to completely replenish its storage by the start of next winter,”

Средняя цена на нефть Urals за период мониторинга с 15 декабря 2022 года по 14 января 2023 года составила $46,82 за баррель, или $341,8 за тонну.

Brent fell 62 cents, or 0.7%, to $84.66 a barrel, WTI was down 51 cents, or 0.6%, at $79.35 a barrel.

The OPEC+ Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee, on which Mazrouei sits, is co-chaired by Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak.

Gas prices may have dropped, but are still almost double their five-year average for the time of year.

Despite the adoption of the Versailles Declaration in March 2022, when leaders of the 27 EU member states pledged to phase out the EU’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels as soon as possible, imports of Russian LNG increased by 12% in 2022 compared to 2021.

U.S. Rig Count is up 3 from last week to 775, Canada Rig Count is up 38 from last week to 227.