SINGAPORE: Oil prices extended their gains to multi-month highs Thursday following another drop in US supplies and the prospect of further disruptions to output from key producer Nigeria.

The commodity has almost doubled since hitting near 13-year lows at the start of the year as a global supply glut has eased thanks chiefly to a weakening dollar, signs of a pick-up in the world economy and falling production from Nigeria and Canada.

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