us oil futures settled at their highest price in more than a week tuesday as saudi arabia raised talk of potential production cuts while naturalgas prices dropped 5 after reaching 14year highs amid ongoing concerns over european supplies freeport lng said tuesday that it plans to restart its liquefaction facility in early to midnovember later than previously expected  leading to a further delay of lng exports october wti crude clv22 rose 338 or 37 to settle at 9374 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange september natural gas ngu22 fell 49 cents or 5 to end at 9193 per million british thermal units retreating from an intraday high above 10