Thursday 27 February 2020: US crude oil stocks increase by just 452,000 barrels, against an expected gain of 2.1M barrels, according to the weekly report from the U.S. EIA

Thursday 27 February 2020:Decline of 4.8M barrels in gasoline and distillate inventories fails to provide any support to the market as Covid 19 virus dominates

Thursday 27 February 2020:Decline in UK gas prices is arrested on Wednesday with increases of around 0.30p to 0.50p being driven by a decline of almost 1% in the value of sterling

Thursday 27 February 2020:Withdrawals from UK medium range storage facilities continues through late February, despite weak prompt prices, with current storage levels reduced to around 37% of capacity