Brent crude was up 68 cents, or 1.2%, at $58.91 a barrel at 0650 GMT, after falling 2.1% on Thursday and 3% the previous day.
Read MoreBrent crude was down 64 cents, or 1 per cent, at $60.66 a barrel at 0446 GMT, after rising 4.7 per cent on Tuesday, the biggest percentage gain since December.
Read MoreIOC sold the 35,000-tonne naphtha cargo for Aug. 28-30 loading from Chennai to commodity trader Trafigura at a premium of about $17 a tonne to its own price formula on a free-on-board (FOB) basis after extending the validity of the sales tender by a day, the sources said.
Read MoreInternational benchmark Brent crude futures were down 18 cents or 0.3%, from the previous settlement, to $58.39 a barrel by 0310 GMT.
Read MoreConsumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, totalled 17.58 million tonnes, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed.
Read MoreInternational benchmark Brent crude futures were at $58.35 a barrel by 0249 GMT, down 18 cents, or 0.3%, from their previous settlement.
Read MoreIndia's coal import during June through the major and non-major ports is estimated to have increased by 2.42 per cent over May 2019.
Read More"The situation is becoming even more uncertain ... global oil demand growth has been very sluggish in the first half of 2019," the IEA said in its monthly report.
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