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** FILE ** An oil technician climbs down a tower at a refinery in Jebel Ali about 30 kms south of Dubai in United Arab Emirates in this file photo taken in March 2004. Oil prices settled at a record high near 67 US dollars on Friday, Aug. 12, 2005 as US refinery outages looked set to test petrol supplies . (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)