OSLO, July 2 (Reuters) - Norwegian offshore oil workers andemployers signed a new wage deal on Saturday, avoiding a strikethat would have cut the output from western Europe's top oil andgas producer by about six percent, employers and unions said.
Some 755 workers at fields operated by Statoil, ExxonMobiland Engie had threatened to strike if the talks had failed. Aconflict would initially have capped Norway's daily oil andnatural gas output by 229,000 barrels of oil equivalents. (Reporting by Terje Solsvik and Stine Jacobsen)