Crude oil futures were largely steady during mid-morning trade in Asia Thursday following the release of the US’ stocks data for both crude and oil products last week, which were mixed. At 10:50 am Singapore time (0250 GMT), ICE February Brent crude futures inched 1 cent/b (0.02%) lower from Wednesday’s settle to $66.16/b, while the front-month NYMEX January light sweet crude contract slipped 2 cents/b (0.03%) to $60.91/b. US commercial crude stocks fell 1.09 million barrels to 446.83 million barrels during the week ended December 13, according to data released by the US Energy Information Administration on Wednesday. The drawdown left nationwide crude inventories about 3% above the five-year average for this time of year. Analysts polled by S&P Global Platts on Monday were looking for stocks to have declined by 2.4 million barrels over […]