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Oil prices rise after a decline in the number of US oil rigs
Twilight News / oil futures prices rose in Asian trade Friday counterattack two sessions of losses with support from expectations that the data will be issued later in the day will show a continuous decline in the number of oil rigs in the United States.
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This is a clear sign of the pressure developed by the sharp drop in prices for crude producers.
Showed a weekly survey of company Baker Hughes oil services last week that the number of oil rigs running in the United States fell to its lowest level since August 2011, although the government data indicated that US oil production reached 9.2 million barrels per day, the highest level since 1973.
The price of the Brent crude contract for delivery in April 33 cents to $ 60.54 a barrel after it ended the previous session down 32 cents.
With the landing by 3.7 percent in the previous two sessions Brent going to record the first weekly drop in four weeks.
And stepped up US light crude, which expires in March traded in later Friday 48 cents to $ 51.64 a barrel on delivery.
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