Oil Set for Weekly Gain on Rebalancing Signs From U.S. to China

Futures added 1.5 percent in New York. China’s crude imports last month jumped to the second-highest on record, customs data show, while U.S. government data on Thursday showed crude inventories fell by 2.75 million barrels last week. OPEC is said to expect a global oil glut will be gone a year from now. President Donald Trump is expected on Friday to disavow a deal with Iran that helped revive its oil exports, while stopping short of abandoning it.

Oil has rebounded from the biggest weekly loss since May on signs that output cuts led by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are draining a surplus. OPEC expects the effort to succeed by the end of the third quarter of next year, said people familiar with the group’s internal forecasts. The prediction assumes that production in Libya and Nigeria will remain at current levels and U.S. shale output will expand by no more than 500,000 barrels a day next year, two people familiar with the matter said.

West Texas Intermediate for November delivery was at $51.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up 75 cents, at 10:10 a.m. in London. Total volume traded was in line with the 100-day average. Prices are up 4.1 percent this week.

Brent for December settlement was at $57.19 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange, up 1.7 percent or 94 cents. Prices are up 2.8 percent this week. The global benchmark crude traded at a premium of $5.54 to December WTI.

Prices also rose amid ongoing tensions in OPEC member Iraq between the central government and the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. At least 6,000 Kurdish fighters, known as peshmerga, have been deployed in the oil-rich Kirkuk province following “threats” of attack from Iraqi forces, media network Rudaw reported.
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