Oil costs rose just before meeting between OPEC and its partners, as investors were risking everything would to a great extent consent to expand their supply curbs into May.

OPEC+ has raised worries that rising numbers of Covid infections globally and lockdown estimates will affect the recuperation in demand for oil, as indicated by a report from the group’s specialists panel meeting seen by Reuters.

Brent rough fates for May, which expires on Wednesday, rose 32 cents, or 0.5%, to $64.46 a barrel at 0525 GMT, subsequent to falling 1.3% on Tuesday. The more active Brent contract for June was up 25 cents, or 0.4%, at $64.42 a barrel.

The benchmark has shed 2.5% so far this month, contrasted and a 18% ascent in February.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fates climbed 26 cents, or 0.4%, to $60.81 a barrel, in the wake of falling 1.6% in the past meeting.

“The expectation is OPEC+ is going to show supply discipline,” said Commonwealth Bank commodities analyst Vivek Dhar.

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and partners, together called OPEC+, are set to meet on Thursday, following a month in which oil costs have whipsawed on worries about broadened pandemic lockdowns in Europe, moderate vaccine rollouts and rising COVID-19 cases in India and Brazil, set in opposition to developing positive thinking on development in the United States.

OPEC+ a month ago astonished the market by consenting to expand supply curbs, with small exceptions for Russia and Kazakhstan, when fuel demand gave off an impression of being recuperating.

“All eyes will be on OPEC+ meeting for May output decisions and considering the surge in COVID-19 cases and lockdowns being implemented in parts of Europe, and the strength in dollar, it may pressure prices by another 2 to 3%,” said Sunilkumar Katke, head of currencies and commodities at Axis Securities.

“We also anticipate some ease in supply from May considering the output cut extensions have already been stretched from previous planned levels.”

Under existing checks, OPEC, driven by Saudi Arabia, and non-OPEC makers, led by Russia, have cut a little more than 7 million barrels each day (bpd), while Saudi Arabia has made an extra voluntary decrease of 1 million bpd.

Saudi Arabia is set up to back an extension of the supply cuts into June, including its own voluntary cut, to help costs, a source advised on the matter revealed to Reuters this week.

Adding to the view that the makers group should keep down supply, information released on Tuesday by the American Petroleum Institute showed U.S. crude oil stocks rose by 3.9 million barrels in the week to March 26, well over examiners’ figures in a Reuters’ poll for a form of around 100,000 barrels.

Information on U.S. inventories are expected on Wednesday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.