oil futures rose friday heading for a fiveday winning streak to kick off the first trading week of 2022 as investors continued to monitor unrest in kazakhstan that threatens to add to supply outages that have helped boost crude prices west texas intermediate crude for february delivery cl00 clg22 was up 74 cents or 09 at 8020 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange on track for a 66 weekly rise march brent crude brn00 brnh22  the global benchmark rose 75 cents or 09 to 8274 a barrel on ice futures europe set for a 62 weekly rise violent protests sparked by a sharp rise in fuel prices have rocked kazakhstan this week with scores of protesters and ore than a dozen law enforcement officers killed the internet across the country was shut down and two airports including on in almaty the nation’s largest city were closed on friday the country’s president said order had been restored the government also announced a 180day price cap on vehicle fuel and a moratorium on utility rate increases “the country represents yet another risk supply disruption given the epicenter of the unfolding unrest and a ‘technical adjustment’ having already occurred at the tengiz oil field” said helima croft head of global commodity strategy at rbc capital markets in a note the operator of the tengiz oil field the country’s largest at 600000 barrels a day on thursday said it had made a technical adjustment due to logistics issues sp global platts reported kazakhstan is the largest producer in the former soviet union at around 16 million barrels a day “overall with around 1 million barrels a day of production currently offline because of disruptions in ecuador libya and nigeria further outages would be particularly unwelcome for the biden administration as it faces a consumer backlash over rising gasoline prices in advance of the midterm elections” she said