Brent crude oil rose above $123 per barrel, a 2½-year high, as supplies in Libya appeared at risk of a prolonged outage.
Col Muammer Gaddafi’s forces battled opposition fighters around the oil port of Brega on Wednesday, suggesting Libya’s valuable light, sweet crude output will remain bottled up for the foreseeable future.
Raymond Carbone, a broker at Paramount Options in New York, said: “Regardless of whatever happens, that situation is going to be affecting the oil market for quite a while.”
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