Brent was at $51.91 a barrel, up $2.24 or 4.5%, WTI hit a 14-month low of $43.32, before recovering to $46.65, up $1.89, or 4.2%.

"I want to emphasize, for the Russian budget, for our economy, current oil prices are acceptable. Let me remind you that this year, as part of our macroeconomic policy, we took a Brent crude price of $42.40/b as the base level," Putin said during a meeting on the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy and the oil market with government ministers and representative of oil and gas companies.

Despite heavy lobbying by Saudi Arabia, the 23-country coalition of OPEC and non-OPEC producers has yet to agree on any plans to rein in crude oil production further.

Russian oil output stood at 11.29 million barrels per day (bpd) in February,

Brent was down $1.74, or 3.3%, at $49.99 a barrel, WTI fell $1.89, or about 4%, to $45.20.

Brent rose 33 cents, or 0.6%, to $55.28 a barrel, WTI gained 41 cents, or 0.8%, to $50.31 a barrel.

The global impact of coronavirus will only be “short term”, according to the CEO of Saudi Aramco.

Brent fell by $1.42, or 2.4%, to $57.08 a barrel, WTI fell by $1.26, or 2.4%, to $52.12.

Brent was down 64 cents, or 1.1%, at $58.67 a barrel, WTI dropped 54 cents, or 1%, at $53.34 a barrel.

Despite the partial recovery, oil prices are still far below the level many OPEC members need for their budgets to balance.

European natural gas storage levels are 48% higher than the five-year (2015–19) average for February, largely a result of unseasonably warm weather in recent months and higher-than-average imports in 2019.

Brent was up by 51 cents, or 0.9%, at $58.26 a barrel, WTI was up 55 cents, or 1.1%, at $52.60 a barrel.

Oil demand growth in 2020 is revised down by 0.23 mb/d from the previous month’s assessment. With this, global oil demand is now forecast to grow by 0.99 mb/d and average 100.73 mb/d for 2020,

EIA now expects global petroleum and liquid fuels demand will rise by 1.0 million b/d in 2020, which is lower than the forecast increase in the January STEO of 1.3 million b/d in 2020, and by 1.5 million b/d in 2021.

We have cut our 2020 oil demand growth forecast by 365 kb/d to 825 kb/d, the lowest since 2011.