Brent rose $1.25, or 1.9%, to $67.69. WTI was at $64.73 a barrel, up $1.15, or 1.8%.

U.S. Rig Count is up 2 from last week to 455, Canada Rig Count is down 1 from last week to 58.

Brent fell $1.55, or 2.3%, to settle at $65.11 a barrel. WTI crudeended $1.31, or 2.1%, lower at $62.05 a barrel.

"The main issues, oil sanctions, petrochemical sanctions, shipping sanctions, insurance and so on and so forth, Central Bank and banks ... have been wrapped up," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on state television

Brent was down $1.40, or 2.1%, at $65.26 a barrel. WTI lost $1.12, or 1.7%, to $62.24 a barrel.

The Russian physicist Lev Artsimovich once said, “Fusion will be ready when society needs it.” Ideally, we would have solved fusion 30 years ago and today it would be ready to roll out. But conditions in the past weren’t right for fusion, and there wasn’t the right kind of drive or possibility for it.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 1.3 million barrels from the previous week to 486.0 million barrels.

Brent fell $1.08, or 1.5%, to $67.63 a barrel. WTI dropped $1.05 cents, or 1.6%, to $64.44 a barrel.

A good Gap Up from the previous weeks closing price at 3.00379 saw a huge spike towards the 3.08 handle bringing about more bullish price action momentum towards yesterday's(May17th) peak price at 3.18093.

Brent fwas up 55 cents, or 0.8%, at $70.01. WTI was up 37 cents, or 0.6%, at $66.64.

Brent fell 21 cents, or 0.3%, to $68.50 a barrel. WTI eased 9 cents, or 0.1%, to $65.28.

Pumped hydro energy storage constitutes 99% of global storage energy.

U.S. Rig Count is up 5 from last week to 453, Canada Rig Count is up 4 from last week to 59.

Brent was down $1.75, or 2.5%, at $67.57 a barrel. WTI was down $1.80, or 2.7%, to $64.28 a barrel.

For 2021, world oil demand is expected to increase by 6.0 mb/d, unchanged from last month’s estimate, to average 96.5 mb/d.