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Weak economic outlook and oversupply weigh on oil markets

SINGAPORE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - U.S. oil prices fell on Tuesday as the global economic outlook darkened further and cooperation between oil producing countries to curb oversupply looked unlikely, pulling U.S.

Woodside approaches Oil Search with $8 bln bid

MELBOURNE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Woodside Petroleum Ltd, Australia's biggest independent oil and gas producer, said on Tuesday it has approached smaller rival Oil Search Ltd with an all-share takeover plan, worth A$11.6 billion ($8 billion) based on Monday's close.

As foreign steelmakers look to Iran, local producers turn overseas

* But import market likely to be smaller than before sanctions

Poland proposes plan to provide cash for coal miner Kompania Weglowa

WARSAW, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Poland plans to transfer part of its stakes in gas group PGNiG, utility PGE and insurer PZU into an investment fund that will use them as collateral to raise cash for cash-strapped coal miner Kompania Weglowa.

EU to give go-ahead to GE, Alstom deal on Tuesday - sources

BRUSSELS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators will give their blessing on Tuesday to General Electric's 12.4 billion euros ($13.9 billion) bid for French peer Alstom's power business, its largest ever deal, two people familiar with the matter said on Monday.

Greenland fines Greenpeace for drilling rig stunts

COPENHAGEN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A Greenland court on Monday fined Greenpeace over $26,000 for disrupting oil drilling off the island's coast, the latest chapter in the environmental group's fight to stop industrial development in the Arctic.

UPDATE 8-Oil falls more than 3 percent on oversupply, China equity losses

* Saudi set to maintain near-record output into Q4 (Updates prices paragraph 5, adds Saudi output paragraph 9)

UPDATE 1-France's Hollande says risk climate talks could fail

PARIS, Sept 7 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande warned on Monday that climate change talks in Paris later this year could fail especially if the issue of financing for emerging nations was not resolved.

Britain rejects four planned wind farms in Wales

LONDON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Britain's energy ministry has rejected four planned onshore wind farms in Wales, it said in a statement on Monday.

Polish treasury wants to partially transfer PGNiG, PZU, PGE stakes to govt fund

WARSAW, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Poland's treasury ministry wants to transfer part of its stakes in gas group PGNiG, insurer PZU and utility PGE into state-run investment fund TF Silesia, an official agenda for a cabinet meeting on Monday showed.

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