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BP plans to cut 4,000 jobs as crude-oil slump deepens  Word oil reports that BP will cut 4,000 jobs in its crude-oil production division this year as prices continue to tumble.The company will reduce its worldwide upstream workforce to less than 20,000. The cuts include 600 people working at North Sea projects: they’ll lose their positions over the next two years “with the majority in the first year,” London-based spokesman David Nicholas said by phone.The job losses added[; to the 4,0 …