•IPE Brent futures Wednesday rose half a dollar in early trading on expectations that US inventory data due to be released later in the day would have a bullish impact on the market. An 800,000 barrel draw in gasoline stock in expected.
•Continued unrest in Iraq is also a continuing cause for concern in the market.
 
  •Shell continue to shut in a fifth of Nigeria's 2.5 million b/d production as a precaution after the militants bombed the Forcados loading platform and sabotaged two pipelines belonging to Shell and state-owned NNPC.

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