US heating oil futures rose to around $2.42 per gallon, moving closer to the July highs reached last week, supported by increasingly tight distillate supplies and broader gains across energy markets. OPEC+ agreed over the weekend to raise output in December but signaled it would pause further increases from January to March due to seasonal factors. The announcement lifted energy commodities, as it helped ease concerns about ongoing oversupply concerns. Additional support came from EIA data showing that US distillate inventories fell by 3.36 million barrels last week, more than twice expectations and marking a fourth consecutive weekly draw. At the same time, new US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, along with refinery outages and attacks on energy infrastructure, have disrupted exports and tightened diesel and gasoil supplies, boosting European gasoil crack spreads to their highest level in over 20 months.
