US Crude Oil WTI Futures were down 0.5% to $65.96 by 1:01 AM ET (05:01 GMT). International Brent Oil Futures fell 0.4% to $74.17.
Despite today’s fall, WTI is still up 45% year-to-date, while Brent has risen 38%.
Oil prices rose to 2019 highs earlier in the week, boosted by US President Donald Trump’s decision not to renew sanction waivers for importers of Iranian oil.
“We will no longer grant exemptions,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, paving the way for Washington to begin imposing economic penalties against companies or financial institutions that purchase Iranian oil when current waivers expire on May 2.
In 2018, US President Donald Trump and his administration granted waivers to eight countries that let them continue importing crude oil from Iran following a sanction announcement against the country.
Prior to the announcement, markets widely expected the US to extend the waivers, according to CNBC.
Trump said this week that he expects <a href=’https://staging.theenergyyear.com/companies-institutions/opec/’>OPEC+ members, which include Russia, to quickly reverse their production cuts and replace lost barrels from Iran and other sources such as Venezuela and Libya.
The International Energy Agency said in a statement on Tuesday that markets are “adequately supplied” and that “global spare production capacity remains at comfortable levels.”
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