Brent crude was $1.06, or 1.2%, lower at $83.52 a barrel by 12:31 p.m ET (1631 GMT), having hit a two-week low of $82.32 earlier in the session and falling 2.1% on Wednesday.
Brent futures rose 42 cents, or 0.5%, to $86.41 a barrel by 12:14 p.m. EDT (1614 GMT), while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose 95 cents, or 1.1%, to $84.71.
Private refiners such as Reliance and Nayara Energy command over a third of India's total crude oil refining capacity
Brent crude futures rose 92 cents, or 1%, to $85.53 a barrel at 1335 GMT, after Thursday's three-year high of $86.10
Over the next two decades, governments are collectively projecting an increase in oil and gas production, and only a modest decrease in coal production
India's crude oil production fell 2.3 per cent in August but natural gas output rose by more than a fifth on the back of output from KG-D6 fields of Reliance-BP
Brent crude oil fell 13 cents, or 0.2%, to $75.33 a barrel by 0128 GMT, after settling up 2.5% the previous day.
Brent crude rose 15 cents, or 0.2% to $73.66 a barrel by 0048 GTM, having gained 0.8% the previous day
Brent crude rose 48 cents, or 0.7% to $73.40 a barrel, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude also added 49 cents, or 0.7%, to $70.21 a barrel
Brent added 26 cents, or 0.36% to $72.86 a barrel at 0616 GMT and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude rose 12 cents, or 0.17%, to $69.42 a barrel.
Ministers ratified the 400,000 barrel-a-day supply hike scheduled for October after less than an hour of talks, one of the quickest meetings in recent memory
Prices were also under pressure from concerns that power outages and flooding in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida will cut crude demand from refineries.
OPEC+ is likely to keep its oil output policy unchanged when the group meets on Wednesday and continue with its planned modest production increase, three OPEC+ sources told Reuters
India's crude oil production continued its declining trend, falling by over 3 per cent in July as state-owned ONGC produced less than the target. The country's crude oil production declined by 3.2 per cent in July to 2.5 million tonnes when compared with the previous year, and by 3.37 per cent in April-July to 9.9 million tonnes, according to data released by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas on Tuesday. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the nation's largest oil and gas producer, produced 1.6 million tonnes of crude in July. This was 4.2 per cent lower than last year and 3.8 per cent less than the target of 1.7 million tonnes. During April-July, ONGC's oil output fell 4.8 per cent to 6.4 million tonnes. Natural gas production showed a contrasting trend. Helped by KG-D6 fields of Reliance-BP, gas production rose 18.36 per cent year-on-year to 2.9 billion cubic metres and by almost 20 per cent in April-July to 11 bcm. While gas production from ONGC's fields fell over 1
Brent crude futures rose 24 cents or 0.4% to $66.69 a barrel at 0635 GMT, after dropping 2.6% on Thursday to its lowest close since May.
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State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Thursday invited bids from private companies for handing over operations of 43 small and marginal oil and gas fields with a view to raising production.
Brent crude was down 58 cents, or 0.8%, at $70.01 a barrel by 0943 GMT. US oil fell by 64 cents, or 0.9%, to $67.80. Both contracts dropped by more than $1 earlier in the session
Brent crude was down 18 cents, or 0.2per cent, at US$71.13 a barrel by 1332 GMT. US crude lost 14 cents, or 0.2per cent, to trade at US$68.95. Over the week the benchmarks are up less than 1per cent
Brent crude futures was down 26 cents, or 0.36%, at $71.18 a barrel by 11212 GMT, after earlier rising to a session-high of $71.90.