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Ice Brent crude futures rise above $100/bl

  • Mercados: Crude oil
  • 12/03/26

Crude oil futures surged in early trading on Thursday as persistent concerns over supply disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East outweighed an international plan to make emergency reserves available to the market.

The front-month May Ice Brent contract climbed by 8.7pc or $8.03/bl to $100.01/bl at 11:00am Singapore time (03:00 GMT). The contract had climbed to a high of $101.59/bl earlier in the session.

April Nymex WTI rose by 8.2pc to $94.40/bl, after reaching a high of $95.99/bl in early Asian trading.

Iraq has halted operations at the country's oil ports today following an attack on an oil tanker in territorial waters, according to Iraqi state news agency Ina.

The US military on 11 March signalled plans to attack Iranian ports in the vicinity of the strait of Hormuz that it said are used by Iran's military to target shipping through the waterway.

French president Emmanuel Macron said the strait of Hormuz traffic restoration mission will proceed once the strait is no longer an active war zone.

The bottleneck in the strait of Hormuz, a key oil choke point in the Mideast Gulf, could take a "few weeks" to be cleared, according to shale billionaire Harold Hamm.

The prospect of a prolonged disruption to production and exports from the Middle East overshadowed the release of emergency oil reserves. The Paris-based IEA said on 11 March it will make 400mn bl of oil from emergency reserves available to the market. The agency said the move was agreed unanimously by its 32 member states. It did not specify how much of the release will be crude and how much will be refined products, but it said the stocks will be made available over a timeframe "appropriate to the national circumstances of each member country".

US president Donald Trump has authorised a 172mn bl drawdown of crude from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) over the next four months as part of the IEA's coordinated release of 400mn bl of oil.

Just ahead of the IEA statement, Japan said it will release 80mn bl from its government and privately-held oil reserves starting on 16 March.


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