His were rising in the early hours of the morning after what was attributed to the attack on a Kuwaiti-flagged tanker at a port in , which caused a fire, with no injuries reported, according to the emirate’s official news agency KUNA.
The price of a barrel of Brent North Sea rose by 2.05% to $109.59, while that of West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark variety, by 2.96% to $105.93.
The price of WTI closed above $100 a barrel yesterday, for the first time since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war against Iran on February 28.
