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Crude:

Oil prices jumped about 2 percent on Wednesday, springing from near six-month lows, after U.S. government data showed a surprisingly large crude stockpile draw that signalled the market may have been wrong in predicting slumping demand for energy.

Crude futures have lost over $10 a barrel since early June on fears that peak summer demand for gasoline in the United States was not enough to offset a growing global glut in oil supply. A resurgent dollar weighing on commodities and a stock market tumble in No.1 energy consumer China also contributed to the decline.

However, latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showing a 4.2 million-barrel draw in crude stockpiles last week, more than twenty times analysts' expectations for a decrease of 184,000 barrels, indicated demand for energy may have been stronger than some thought.

The draw diverged sharply from the prior week's inventory build, which had taken stockpiles to above a five-year seasonal average.

The EIA also reported that averaging 9.51 million barrels per day over the past four weeks, U.S. gasoline demand was up 6.2 percent from the year-ago period.

Bunker Market:

Still loading problems for fuel oil in Rotterdam.

Dutch time: 11.00 hrs.

Fuel oil RMG 380 HS: 3.5%: USD 269-272

Marine Gas Oil DMA .89/ LS 0.1%: USD 455-460

ULS fuel oil: USD 435-440.