Oil prices fell Friday on a stronger dollar and skepticism that a large drop in U.S. inventories last week marks the beginning of a trend. But prices still posted a weekly gain following the biggest one-week stockpile decline in about 17 years and indications that some major producers are willing to cooperate on a production freeze. U.S. oil for October delivery settled down $1.74, or 3.7%, at $45.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices rose 3.2% this week. Brent, the global benchmark, fell $1.98, or 4%, to $48.01 a barrel on ICE Futures Europe. The contract rose 2.5% on the week. Prices surged Thursday after the Energy Information Administration said U.S. crude supplies fell by 14.5 million barrels last week, the biggest weekly drawdown since 1999. A worker checks the valve of an oil pipe at a Lukoil field in Russia…. Crude inventories around the […]