month intraday low of US$48.80 per barrel following the U.S. Department of Energy's petroleum supply report. Unleaded gas was up more than 1 1/2 cents at US$1.4825 a gallon (3.8 liters), while heating oil jumped more than a penny to reach US$1.4676. On London's International Petroleum Exchange, June Brent rose 78 cents to US$51.75 a barrel. The Department of Energy reported Wednesday that U.S. crude oil supplies rose by 2.6 million barrels last week, bringing inventories in the world's largest energy consumer to 327 million barrels _ 9 percent above last year's level and the highest since July 1999.