Brent dipped 18 cents, or 0.2%, to $84.57 a barrel , WTI were down 16 cents, also 0.2%, at $78.00 a barrel.

The EU banned imports of Russian oil products from Feb. 5, two months after imposing restrictions on seaborne crude shipments from the country.

After excluding 7 bids due to formal errors, the regulator selected 119 proposals with prices ranging between €7.24c/kWh and the maximum permissible value of €7.35c/kWh. The volume-weighted average reached €7.34c/kWh (+25% compared to the previous round).

Brent rose 45 cents, 0.5%, to $83.90 a barrel, WTI gained 42 cents, or 0.6%, to $77.47 a barrel.

Brent were down 30 cents, or 0.36%, at $82.86 a barrel, WTI traded at $76.09 a barrel.

At the same time, Russian LNG imports into the EU rose by around a third to 14.1 million mt (19 Bcm), but it was LNG from other sources -- the US in particular -- that helped fill some of the gap left by lost Russian gas.

Even though Europe has significantly cut its reliance on Russian gas, a lot of the storage that they used to cut the reliance was actually Russian gas from the past.

Brent fell 30 cents to $82.75 a barrel, WTI dropped by 38 cents to $75.98 a barrel.

Angola is among the hardest hit at the moment, with daily exports to China falling 27% so far this month compared with whole of February last year.

Overall gas use in the 27-nation European Union plunged by 19.3% from August to January compared with the five-year average for the same period,

You can't invest in Natural Gas on a daily basis, Its too volatile, but if you think of Natural Gas a long-term holding, then you push your profit horizon out.

Brent rose 70 cents, or 0.8%, to $83.70 a barrel, WTI was at $76.89 a barrel.

Refiners in India, which rarely used to buy Russian oil because of costly logistics, have emerged as Russia's key oil client

Current hydrogen production technologies release significant carbon emissions, and up until now, cost has limited expansion to green hydrogen technologies.

Brent dropped 96 cents, or 1.13%, to $84.18 per barrel, WTI shed 97 cents, a 1.24% loss, to $77.52.