Oil has bumped up marginally on the markets this month.
Different energy prices are going up and going down, it would spin your head around trying to keep up. As we go to press the price of a barrel of Brent crude on the oil futures market is just below $83.
Output curbs by the Opec+ alliance of large producers, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, have been offset by record-breaking supplies from other producers, including the United States, Brazil and Guyana.
The IEA forecasts that demand for oil is poised to defy any slowdown in global growth. Watch this space.
