Oil prices rallied nearly 3% to their highest in three months on Friday as traders braced for supply disruptions from the broadest U.S. sanctions package targeting Russian oil and gas revenue.

The U.S. Treasury Department is sanctioning Russian oil companies, tankers, officials and executives. Oil prices jumped on worries that crude supplies would face disruptions. Oil prices jumped more than 3% on Friday as the U.

Crude prices are having one of their best days in a year, rallying as much as 5% amid concerns that icy weather in the oil patch will crimp domestic supply, while tighter sanctions on Russia and Iran may eliminate barrels from global markets.

The United States will impose some of the harshest sanctions yet on Russia's oil industry, according to a purported U.S. Treasury document circulating among traders in Europe and Asia that drove global oil prices 3% higher on Friday.

By Timothy Gardner, Daphne Psaledakis, Nidhi Verma and Dmitry Zhdannikov WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden's administration imposed its broadest package of sanctions so far targeting Russia's oil and gas revenues on Friday,

The U.S. Departments of Treasury and State Friday applied new sanctions on Russia's oil production and exports. Sanctioned were oil companies, 183 ships, dozens of oil traders, insurance companies and energy officials.

The United States on Friday imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia's energy sector to try to limit funding for Moscow's war in Ukraine. The sanctions target two of Russia's largest oil companies, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegas,

WTI crude oil (CLG25) today is up +1.92 (+2.60%), and February RBOB gasoline (RBG25) is up +0.0344 (+1.70%). Crude and gasoline prices today are sharply higher, with crude posting a 3-month high and gasoline posting a 2-3/4 month high.