* Iran oil exports near pre-sanctions level -source
* Falling U.S. stocks, rising dollar weigh on crude
* Gasoline settles up 2 pct on pipeline, refinery issue
* U.S. oil rig count rises for 11th week out of 12 (Adds expectations for continued rise in gasoline pump prices until Colonial Pipeline is fixed, paragraph 14)
By Barani Krishnan
NEW YORK, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Crude oil prices fell 2 percent on Friday to multi-week lows as swelling Iranian exports reinforced fears of a global glut, while gasoline rallied on refinery and pipeline outages.
Falling U.S. equity markets .SPX and a rising dollar .DXY also weighed on crude futures and other commodities denominated in the greenback. .N FRX/
Gasoline RBc1 rose 2 percent after outages on Colonial Pipeline's main gasoline line and in a key unit of BP Plc's BP.L refinery in Whiting, Indiana. The profit for turning crude into gasoline 1RBc1-Clc1 hit three-month highs and pump prices for the fuel rose as well. crude futures LCOc1 settled down 82 cents, or 1.8 percent, at $45.77 a barrel, hitting a two-week bottom of $45.48.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures CLc1 fell 88 cents, or 2 percent, to settle at $43.03 a barrel. WTI hit a five-week low of $42.74.
For the week, Brent fell 5 percent, while WTI lost 6 percent.
"Crude futures are taking on an increasingly bearish appearance," said Jim Ritterbusch of Chicago-based oil markets consultancy Ritterbusch & Associates.
For WTI, "this can potentially expedite our expected trip south to the $39 area," he said.
Oil slumped after a source familiar with Iran's tanker loading schedules said the third-biggest OPEC producer raised crude exports to more than 2 million barrels per day (bpd) in August, nearing pre-sanctions levels. and OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia have been raising exports despite the approaching Sept. 26-28 meeting in Algeria, where the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other major producers are set to discuss an oil production freeze. Most market participants are skeptical a deal will be reached. are also signs of returning output from Nigeria and Libya, where crude exports have been hampered by conflict and unrest. oil output, meanwhile, has grown more than that of any producer since 2010, data shows. A weekly reading on the U.S. oil rig count showed a rise for the 11th out of the last 12 weeks. RIG/U
The rally in gasoline picked up on news BP Plc BP.L plans to shut for up to 10 days the large crude distillation unit at its 413,500-bpd Whiting, Indiana refinery. That would add to closure of the refinery's gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit. expect gasoline pump prices to continue rising in the coming days after Colonial Pipeline Co COLPI.UL said it was aiming for a restart by Thursday of its key line that brings gasoline to the East Coast. GRAPHIC-Why the US is a major roadblock for oil output freeze
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