Brent rose to 111 dollars a barrel on Thursday on a drop in the U.S inventories and output cuts in Libya and South Sudan.
Factory growth in China - the second largest oil consumer - slowed in late 2013.
Meanwhile, the purchasing managers' indexes published by the government and HSBC remained above
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