Highlights
- Crude oil prices rose on Wednesday.
- The US government is trying its best to urgently negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran, aiming to quickly stabilise oil prices.
- The revival of the Iran deal could bring more than 1Mbpd of Iranian oil to the market.
Crude oil prices jumped on Wednesday after the crude inventories tumbled in the US by 5 million barrels and fuel demand rose to all-time high levels.
A day earlier prices dropped by 2% on resumption of indirect talks between the US and Iran to revive an international nuclear agreement. The revival of the deal could bring more than 1Mbpd of Iranian oil to the market to boost the global supply by 1%.
April delivery Brent Crude oil futures last traded at US$91.47 per barrel down 0.17%, whereas March delivery WTI crude oil futures traded 0.07% up at US$89.72 per barrel as of 10 February 2022 at 12:59 PM AEDT.
Falling US crude stockpiles
US crude stocks tumbled by 4.8 million barrels in the last week to 410.4 million barrels to reach their lowest level since October 2018. On the flip side, the demand hit 21.9 Mbpd in the past four weeks, as per the government data.
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Meanwhile, the US government is trying its best to urgently negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iran, aiming to quickly stabilise oil prices.
Bottom Line
Crude oil prices rose on Wednesday after the US crude stocks tumbled by nearly 5 million barrels. The prices also got support from the ongoing political unrests in the UAE, Ukraine, and Russia.