(Reporting by Victoria Klesty, editing by Anna Ringstrom)
Messaging: victoria.klesty.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) OSLO, March 21 (Reuters) - Norway's crude oil output
grew slightly in February from January but lagged an official
forecast, preliminary data from the Norwegian Petroleum
Directorate (NPD) showed on Tuesday.
Crude oil output was 1.78 million barrels per day (bpd)
against 1.77 million in January and a forecast 1.83 million, the
NPD said in a statement.
Natural gas output declined in February, to 353.9 million
cubic metres (mcm) per day from 356.8 mcm per day in January,
lower than the forecast 358.1 mcm per day, it said.
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