Singapore: Monday's oil prices grew more than $1 a barrel, with OPEC and its allies on track to extend supply cuts at their Vienna conference this week by at least the end of 2019.
Front-month crude futures for September hit an intraday high of $66.63 a barrel and rose to $1.72 or 2.7 percent, at $66.46 a barrel of 0639 GMT.
August's U.S. crude futures jumped $1.52, or 2.6 percent, to $59.99 a barrel, after previously reaching their peak at $60.13 in over five weeks.
Iran joined Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Russia's top manufacturers on Monday to support a strategy directed at boosting crude prices in a weakening global economy.
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