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Oil prices rise as storms and air strikes threaten supply

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Oil prices rise as storms and air strikes threaten supply

Oil prices rose on Wednesday as the market weighed supply constraints from a storm heading for US oil-producing regions and attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia against increased supplies of ​Middle East crude.

US crude oil and gasoline inventories fell, while distillate stocks rose marginally last week, market sources said on Tuesday, citing data from the American Petroleum Institute.

Around 12 million barrels per day of crude oil and 2 million bpd of ‌refined products ⁠were leaving the Middle East on tankers in the last 7 to 10 days, the head of Vitol said.

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