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

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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