Oil futures declined on Friday with expectations for a supply surplus next year, strength in the U.S. dollar, and continued worries over demand from China — the world’s largest crude importer — setting prices up to post a loss for the week.

Oil prices slipped on Friday and were bound for a weekly loss as investors digested waning Chinese demand and a possible slowing of the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate cut path. Brent crude futures dropped 71 cents,