oil futures climbed on thursday with us prices marking another settlement at the highest since late october 2014 after the international energy agency lifted its global oildemand forecast for this year and next on the back of a massive switch to crude by power generators facing an energy shortage data from the energy information administration showing a 61 millionbarrel rise in last weeks us crude inventories however kept price gains in check the supply climb was the third weekly rise in a row and biggest since march west texas intermediate crude for november delivery clx21 rose 87 cents or 11 to settle at 8131 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange