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Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week cut oil rigs for an 13th week in the last 14, data showed on Friday, a sign drillers were still waiting for higher prices before returning to the well pad.

BAKU, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Forty two workers have been rescued from an offshore oil platform that caught fire in Azerbaijan's sector of the Caspian Sea, Azeri independent TV ANS said on Friday.

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S.-led coalition carried out 26 air strikes against Islamic State militants on Thursday, targeting oil production in Syria and supporting the Iraqi effort to retake the city of Ramadi, the military said in a statement on Friday.

VIENNA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - OPEC could hold another meeting before June if oil prices continue to slide, Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said on Friday.

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - An OPEC meeting in Vienna appeared to have ended up with no decision as ministers left the room without making a comment and two OPEC soucres said no deal has been reached.

PARIS, Dec 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Responding to a complaint filed by typhoon victims, a Philippines human rights commission agreed Friday to look into whether large international fossil fuel companies are violating the human rights of its citizens by driving climate change.

WARSAW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Poland will buy stockpiled coal reserves from struggling mining companies as part of a government plan to help boost the sector, Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said on Friday.

TBILISI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Georgia on Friday stripped former president Mikheil Saakashvili of his citizenship, in a move one of his supporters described as part of a settling of political scores.

VIENNA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - OPEC maintained its policy of pumping near-record volumes of oil at a meeting on Friday, according to sources at the group, taking no steps to reduce one of the worst crude gluts in history which has driven down prices.

MOSCOW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Russian gas producer Gazprom said on Friday it had asked Ukraine's Naftogaz to provide a guarantee on the volumes of gas it intended to purchase from Gazprom until the end of March.

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