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Oil prices fall amid ample supplies

Xinhua, November 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Oil prices dropped Friday as market expected that supplies would exceed the demand.

U.S. crude supplies of last week gained 1 million barrels to 488.2 million barrels, 105.2 million barrels more than one year before, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a weekly report released Wednesday.

Inventories at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for the U.S. contract, added 1.75 million barrels to 58.6 million barrels.

U.S. crude production added 17,000 to 9.165 million barrels a day last week, according to the EIA's report.

Traders are still closely watching the next gathering of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) scheduled for Dec. 4 in Vienna.

OPEC maintained it output quota of 30 million barrels per day at June's meeting. The cartel's output is accounted for around 40 percent of the global crude output.

The West Texas Intermediate for December delivery moved down 1.33 U.S. dollars to settle at 41.71 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while Brent crude for January delivery decreased 60 cents to close at 44.86 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. Enditem