Oil prices rose Tuesday, helped in part by the continuing outage of a North Sea pipeline and reports that Russia’s largest oil company could envision continuing production curbs past 2018. U.S. crude futures traded up 30 cents, or 0.52%, at $57.46 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent, the global benchmark, rose 39 cents, or 0.62%, to $63.80 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. Russian oil giant PAO Rosneft is “contemplating cuts beyond 2018, which is probably supporting things a bit,” said Thomas Pugh, commodities economist at Capital Economics. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and 10 producers outside the cartel, including Russia, agreed late last month to extend an accord to hold back nearly 2% of crude production through the end of 2018. The deal, first agreed a year ago, was meant to rein in a global supply glut that has weighed on prices since […]