By Nicholas Lua

(Bloomberg) -- Oil rose after a report that the US and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, following a flare-up that saw a supertanker carrying Qatari crude hit near the Strait of Hormuz.

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Brent jumped as much as 1.9% to $73.39 a barrel, before paring some gains, while West Texas Intermediate was near $70. Among tit-for-tat assaults over the weekend, the US struck Iranian military targets after Tehran attacked the vessel near the critical waterway. Meanwhile, the two sides have agreed to meet on Tuesday in Doha, Axios reported, citing unidentified US officials.

The Kiku — the hit very large crude carrier that was carrying about 2 million barrels of oil — last signaled its location off Fujairah, a United Arab Emirates port in the Gulf of Oman, and listed its navigation status as "not under command." It isn't yet clear how oil shipments through the strait — which had picked up again following the interim agreement between the sides — were affected by the latest flare-up.

"The market feels increasingly comfortable treating these moves as tactical rather than structural," said Haris Khurshid, chief investment officer at Chicago-based Karobaar Capital LP. "Until something fundamentally changes, traders are happy to fade both the rallies and the sell-offs."

While traffic had increased and the US Central Command said on Saturday that commercial vessel transit through the strait continued, some tankers have aborted exit attempts. Shipowners will likely remain wary of crossing the chokepoint as hundreds of ships remain trapped in the Persian Gulf.

During the weekend's tensions, a Saudi Aramco-operated helicopter crashed in Ras Tanura — Saudi Arabia's energy heartland — near the Persian Gulf coast, the country's press agency said without elaborating on the cause of the crash. It wasn't immediately clear if the incident on Sunday affected any energy facilities.

Elsewhere, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the country faces fuel supply problems including queues at gas stations. He confirmed that a full ban on diesel exports is among measures under discussion to mitigate supply tightness.

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