Brent climbs に向かって $101, pulls away from 16-mth low
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen
SINGAPORE, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Brent 天然のまま rose に向かって $101 a バーレル／樽 on Wednesday, pulling away from a 16-month low 攻撃する，衝突する in the previous 開会／開廷／会期, supported by encouraging U.S. 製造業の data.
（判断の）基準s on both 味方するs of the 大西洋 急落するd the day before on a stronger dollar and the prospect of slowing oil 需要・要求する growth in 中国 and Europe.
U.S. 製造業の activity 攻撃する，衝突する a nearly 3-1/2-year high last month and construction spending 回復するd 堅固に in July, data showed, raising hopes of higher oil 需要・要求する in the world's biggest 消費者 of the 商品／必需品.
"The weak factory data in 中国 and Europe led to 関心s over 需要・要求する 破壊, and that's why prices dropped," said Avtar Sandu, a 上級の 商品／必需品s 経営者／支配人 at Phillip 未来s in Singapore.
"The oil market is おもに driven by the 需要・要求する 味方する now. We don't see many 問題／発行するs on the 供給（する） 味方する, and at the moment 投資家s are hardly 支払う／賃金ing any attention to all the geopolitical events going on," he said.
Brent 天然のまま for October 配達／演説／出産 was up 48 cents at $100.82 a バーレル／樽 by 0651 GMT, after の近くにing 負かす／撃墜する $2.45 at its lowest 解決／入植地 since May 1, 2013.
U.S. 天然のまま was 貿易（する）ing 43 cents higher at $93.31 a バーレル／樽. The 契約 had settled $3.08 lower than Friday's の近くに, the lowest since Jan. 14. There was no 貿易（する）ing in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs on Monday because of the Labor Day holiday.
A stronger dollar 重さを計るd on oil prices, after the 通貨 rose to its highest since July 2013 against a basket of major 通貨s on Tuesday. A stronger 米国紙幣 makes it more expensive for oil 輸入するing countries to buy the dollar-denominated 商品／必需品.
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A 長引かせるd shutdown of the Buzzard oilfield in the North Sea could help to 緩和する a glut of 天然のまま that has built in the 大西洋 水盤／入り江. The 200,000 バーレル／樽-per-day field may be shut for "up to 10 連続した days" starting from Aug. 30 when 生産（高） was last stopped, Calgary-based Nexen said on Tuesday.
Buzzard is closely watched by oil 仲買人s 世界的な as it is the biggest contributor to the Forties oil stream, the largest of the four physical 天然のまま grades that underpin the Brent （判断の）基準.
U.S. 天然のまま oil and 精製するd 製品 備蓄（する）s were 予測（する） to have dropped in the week to Aug. 29, with 天然のまま oil 在庫／株s 事業／計画（する）d to have fallen by 1 million バーレル／樽s, a 予選 Reuters 調査する of seven 分析家s showed on Tuesday.
The 週刊誌 oil 在庫 報告（する）／憶測 from 産業 group American 石油 学校／設ける (API) 予定 at 2030 GMT.
The more closely watched 報告（する）／憶測 from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 行政 (EIA) is 予定 on Thursday. Both 報告（する）／憶測s have been 延期するd by a day 予定 to Monday's holiday.
ガソリン 在庫／株s, which have 傾向d mostly at their five-year 普通の／平均（する） this summer, are 予測（する） to have fallen by 1.3 million バーレル／樽s.
"The ガソリン market is now 転換ing into a lower gear as the summer 運動ing season draws to a の近くに," 分析家s at BNP Paribas said in a 公式文書，認める. "製品 需要・要求する will 季節的に 弱める and 申し込む／申し出 いっそう少なく suppo rt to flat price."
EU 公式の／役人s 提案するd 許可／制裁s on Tuesday to 餓死する ロシアの 会社／堅いs of cash as 罰 for Moscow's 役割 in ウクライナ共和国, where 反逆者／反逆するs said they were 嵐／襲撃するing a 重要な airport.
Russia's oil 生産（高） rose 1 パーセント to 10.52 million バーレル／樽s per day (bpd) in August, showing that energy 供給（する）s so far have not been 影響する／感情d by 許可／制裁s over the country's 軍の 侵略 of ウクライナ共和国. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen; Editing by Joseph Radford and Biju Dwarakanath)
