oil futures finished higher on friday with us prices up tallying a ninth consecutive weekly climb  the longest streak of weekly gains for frontmonth crude on record based on data going back to april 1983 according to dow jones market data analysts attributed oils price gains to easing travel restrictions as well as a slow recovery in us crude output and expectations for higher energy demand for the upcoming holiday season west texas intermediate crude for december delivery clz21 rose 126 or 15 to settle at 8376 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange for the week prices based on the front month rose 25