West Texas Intermediate headed for its first weekly advance in three as crude supplies shrank for the first time in more than a month in the U.S., the world’s biggest oil consumer. Brent rose as the European Union considered expanding sanctions on Russia . Futures increased as much as 0.9 percent in New York . Crude stockpiles fell by 1.78 million barrels last week as inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma , the delivery point for WTI, slid to the lowest level since December 2008, data from the Energy Information Administration show. Ukraine renewed an offer of dialog with representatives of its eastern regions as Russia held army drills. The decline in U.S. stockpiles us “definitely supportive” for crude prices, Jens Naervig Pedersen, a commodities analyst at Danske Bank A/S, said by phone from Copenhagen. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia “will continue to be a worry in the market,” he said. […]