Brent crude was up 79 cents, or 1.4%, at $57.37, having risen 1.7% in the previous session.
Oil prices gained more than 1% on Wednesday, with U.S. crude rising for a seventh day, after industry data showed a bigger than expected drop in inventories and investors shrugged off worsening developments in the pandemic.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was up 67 cents, or 1.3%, at $53.88 a barrel by 0420 GMT after gaining nearly 2% on Tuesday. Brent crude was up 79 cents, or 1.4%, at $57.37, having risen 1.7% in the previous session, as reported by Reuters.
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Oil stocks in the U.S. dropped by 5.8 million barrels last week to around 484.5 million barrels, data from the American Petroleum Institute showed late on Tuesday.
That was more than analysts' expectations in a Reuters poll for a fall of 2.3 million barrels.