Oil jumps to $61 on drop in inventories
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Oil rose more than $1 to over $61 a barrel on Thursday after U.S. government data showed a sharp fall in fuel supplies last week.
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The price of oil surged yesterday on news that US inventories had fallen for the third week in a row.
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Oil prices surged within touching distance of record highs after an unexpected fall in US crude stockpiles fanned supply fears.
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Oil prices surged nearly 6 percent on  Wednesday as the U.S. government reported a fall in heating oil  stocks in the midst of the season's first arctic cold blast in  the Northeast.
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Oil jumped to near $91 a barrel on  Friday, lifted by a broad stock market rally amid optimism  about a U.S. economic stimulus plan aimed at warding off a  recession in the world's top energy consumer.
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Oil hit a record high above $79 a barrel on Wednesday, propelled by an unexpectedly large drop in U.S. crude oil stocks that coincided with only a small output increase from OPEC ahead of peak winter demand.
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Oil hit a record high above $79 a barrel  on Wednesday, propelled by an unexpectedly large drop in U.S.  crude oil stocks that coincided with only a small output  increase from OPEC ahead of peak winter demand.
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WASHINGTON -- Oil prices jumped almost $2 yesterday after briefly dropping to nearly $60 a barrel, while natural gas futures plunged to their lowest level since December 2002.
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Oil prices bounced nearly $2 to $44 a barrel yesterday after government and industry data showed a sharp drop last week in the nation's supply -- a surprise to most traders, who expected inventories to be steady or grow slightly.
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NEW YORK - Crude oil prices took a big jump Wednesday after a US Energy Department report showed a drop in crude oil inventories amid a cold snap in the big oil-consuming states of the US northeast.
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Oil fell toward $61 Tuesday on robust   U.S. inventories ahead of the winter heating season, but   producer group OPEC said the price slide from peaks this summer   had gone far enough.
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PORTLAND, Maine  - Oil rose to a one-month high above $96 a barrel on Wednesday ahead of a U.S. government report expected to show crude inventories in the world's top consumer fell for a sixth straight week.
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Oil jumped 3 percent to over $63 a   barrel on Wednesday as expectations that producing cartel OPEC   may slash output to defend prices countered rising U.S.   inventories.
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Oil prices drifted around $47 a  barrel early on Wednesday, well off recent peaks as traders  braced for another increase in U.S. crude oil inventories.
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Oil prices rose amid expectations a report will show U.S. crude stockpiles fell last week to post the seventh straight decline in inventories for the worldâs largest energy consumer.
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Oil leapt more than 1 percent to above $60 a barrel on Thursday, extending its rebound from an eight-month low on a newspaper report that OPEC members had agreed informally on the need to slash output by 1 million barrels per day.
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Oil prices jumped nearly two dollars  on Thursday after the U.S. government said crude stocks fell to  a fresh five-month low last week and distillate fuel  inventories barely grew ahead of winter.