Stacks of a Total Grande Potts oil refinery seen just after sunset, southeast of Paris, France, March 1, 2021. Register now to get free unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterInternational benchmark Brent crude rose $2.40, or 2.2 percent, to $114.10 a barrel by 1:20 pm EST (1720 GMT). The contract rose to $114.84 a barrel, the highest since March 28. Russian production fell 7.5 percent in the first half of April from March, Interfax news agency reported on Friday, and European Union governments said last week that the bloc’s executive body was preparing proposals to ban Russian crude. Read moreOil jumped to its highest level since 2008 in March, with Brent crude rising briefly to $134.

Source: Libya Today April 18, 2022 18:14 UTC