By Nirmal Bang MARKET ROUNDUP Crude oil rebounded on Thursday, buoyed by a forecast of higher demand from the International Energy Administration and better readings of the U.S. labor and housing markets. IN FOCUS - The West's energy watchdog the IEA upped the pressure on producer club OPEC to increase output by forecasting a steep rise in oil demand later this year and predicting the strain on supply would last over the medium term. - Oil prices will stay above $100 a barrel in the next year as supply worries outweigh concerns about flagging global economic growth, a Reuter's survey of oil industry officials, executives and traders showed. - The first shipment of Saudi crude oil donated to Yemen to help relieve widespread fuel shortages arrived at the port of Aden on Thursday, trade and shipping sources said. - The OPEC producer group has recognized an extra 500,000 barrels per day production from Venezuela's heavy-crude Orinoco Belt region; local media quoted Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez as saying on Thursday. - Niger will produce its first barrel of oil in the first quarter of 2012 and will build a pipeline linking the Chad-Cameroon pipeline to enable it to export its surplus roduction, Niger's prime minister said on Thursday.

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