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VIENNA, June 5 (Reuters) - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Friday that most members of OPEC agree $75 a barrel is a "fair" oil price, the first such comment from one of the group's most hawkish nations.

VIENNA, June 5 (Reuters) - Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said he expects prices and demand to rise, while all options on output would be discussed as ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gathered for their policy meeting on Friday.

VIENNA, June 5 (Reuters) - When it comes to whether Saudi Arabia will invest billions of dollars to increase its ability to pump more oil, boosting the world's only large stand-by reserve, minister Ali al-Naimi has a quick answer: show me the return.

LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - The slump in crude prices has jolted the oil industry into deep cost cutting which, unlike the previous downturn, could last for a few years at least.

SINGAPORE, June 5 (Reuters) - Oil markets fell for a third day on Friday ahead of an OPEC meeting where the oil group is expected to stick by its policy of unconstrained output for another six months, keeping the market oversupplied.

VIENNA, June 5 (Reuters) - Oil group OPEC is set on Friday to stick by its policy of unconstrained oil output for another six months, setting aside warnings of a second lurch lower in prices as some members such as Iran look to ramp up exports.

--Clyde Russell is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own.--

Gas has been struggling to maintain its market share against competition from cheaper coal and growing renewable generation.

Despite only being in office for a month, Russia's new minister of agriculture, Alexander Tkyachyov, has already given us a taste of things to come, starting with a burdensome wheat tax.

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