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* API says U.S. crude stocks rise; EIA report due (Previous SINGAPORE, updates prices, adds quotes)

LONDON - Shares fall in Europe and Asia as oil prices dipa fter Saudi Arabia effectively rules out output cuts by major producers, lifting investor appetite for low-risk assets such as the Japanese yen and gold.

* Will focus investment on US and UK in its new five year plan

ABU DHABI, Feb 24 (Reuters) - OPEC and non-OPEC producers should act quickly to rebalance the global oil market, otherwise they risk deep damage that could take a long time to fix, a senior Iraqi oil official said on Wednesday.

Feb 24 (Reuters) - British oilfield services company Petrofac Ltd said its full-year revenue grew 10 percent and that its order book stood at record levels at the end of the year, sending shares up more than 12 percent on Wednesday morning.

Feb 24 (Reuters) - Scottish engineering firm Weir Group Plc said its pretax profit for the year nearly halved, as its customers continued to delay spending in order to weather the slump in oil prices.

Feb 24 (Reuters) - British oilfield services company Petrofac Ltd said net profit for the year, before accounting for a loss from its Shetland Islands project, fell by nearly a quarter, as its customers held back on spending due to the slump in oil prices.

HOUSTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The world's top oil executives gathered in Houston this week seem to agree on one thing: this year is set to be so horrible that many skip right to 2017 and beyond to talk about hopes for market rebalancing that so far has eluded the battered industry.

Mexico's state oil company is hoping that an infusion of capital from private equity firms and other foreign investors will help it stave off a pressing liquidity crunch.

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