US oil prices near two-year high on pipeline shutdown, falling inventories
US oil costs stayed almost two-year highs on Thursday as the
shutdown of the Keystone pipeline and a drawdown in fuel inventories indicated
a fixing market, in spite of rising yield.
US
West Texas Intermediate (WTI)
rough fates were at $57.95 a barrel at 0143 GMT, down 7 pennies from their last
settlement, yet at the same time near 2015-highs of $58.15 a barrel achieved
the earlier day.
Brent unrefined
prospects LCOc1, the worldwide benchmark at oil costs, were at $63.19 per
barrel, 13 pennies underneath their last close.WTI has been floated by the
shutdown of the 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Keystone pipeline, one of the
biggest rough pipelines from Canada to the United States, and also by another
drawdown in business fuel inventories that came in spite of record US oil
generation.
US unrefined
inventories C-STK-T-EIA fell 1.9 million barrels in the week to November 17, to
457.14 million barrels. Stocks have dropped by 15 for every penny from their
records in March, to underneath 2016 levels.
"Another huge
drawdown in inventories floated speculator notion," ANZ bank said.The
stock drop came as the Keystone pipeline associating Canada's Alberta oilfields
to the United States was closed a week ago after an oil slick in South Dakota.
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