Despite a weaker dollar, oil prices are limping lower into the weekend, set for a first weekly decline in six. Next week we get a new month, and an onslaught of new economic data to distract from ongoing OPEC rhetoric; for now, hark, here are five things to consider in oil markets today: 1) A combination of factors explain why we are seeing much lower West African imports to the U.S. East coast in our ClipperData : the wider WTI-Brent spread in recent months, depleted crude export loadings from Nigeria, less demand due to refinery maintenance in the U.S., and higher Asian demand of late . Regardless, U.S. East coast imports of Angolan and Nigerian grades have dropped by nearly half from their peak for the year in July. Nigerian grades this month are at their slowest pace since January. Nonetheless, volumes have still quadrupled […]