West Texas Intermediate
Brent crude was down 9 cents at $60.40 a barrel by 0919 GMT while West Texas Intermediate crude was up 29 cents at $56.07 a barrel.
Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were trading at $86.14 per barrel at 0651 GMT, down 15 cents, or 0.2 percent, from their last close.
Brent crude futures were up 16 cents at $79.19 per barrel at 0658 GMT, after rising 1.3 percent in the previous session.
Brent crude oil futures gained 25 cents to $78.34 per barrel as of 0727 GMT, reversing a 0.2 percent loss earlier in the session.
International Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $75.63 per barrel at 0654 GMT, down 19 cents from their last close.
Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 were at $72.90 per barrel at 0653 GMT, up 27 cents, or 0.37 percent, from their last close.
Brent crude futures were up 20 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $72.48 barrel by 0644 GMT, following a decline of more than 3 percent on Wednesday.
Oil prices rose on Monday after Saudi crude production registered a surprising dip in July and as American shale drilling appeared to plateau.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 16 cents, or 0.2 percent, at $72.55 a barrel by 0503 GMT, after dropping 2.5 percent on Wednesday.
Brent crude futures rose 13 cents, or 0.2 percent, to $74.42 by 0638 GMT, after trading lower most of the Asian session.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) CLc1 added 46 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $70.84 a barrel, after falling 5 percent the previous session.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were at $77.70 per barrel at 0653 GMT, down 54 cents, or 0.7 percent, from their last close.
“The draw in distillates was against expectations,” said Sukrit Vijayakar, managing director of energy consultancy Trifecta.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 had climbed 61 cents, or 0.8 percent, from their last close to $76.92 per barrel by 0650 GMT.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were at $74.25 per barrel at 0636 GMT, down 1.7 percent from their last close.
Prices were also buoyed by Asia’s stock markets, which flirted with 10-year highs on Thursday.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 - the international benchmark for oil prices - were at $66.49 a barrel.
Oil prices on Wednesday remained near two and a half year highs from the previous session as the market outlook for 2018 is relatively tight.
The last three years have seen dozens of new projects mothballed and expansions put on hold in Canada.
