April WTI crude futures rose 3.76% to $ 29.78 per barrel.

The price of futures for Brent crude oil for May delivery increased by 1.83% to $ 30.60 a barrel.

Earlier, Vyacheslav Kulagin, director of the Center for the Study of World Energy Markets at the Institute for Energy Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, assessed the situation in the oil market in an interview with FBA “Economics Today”.