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There have been few sectors dripping with apathy of late quite like the oil services sector. On Tuesday, The Philadelphia Oil Service Sector Index fell 2% again, adding to a 15% drubbing it has taken this year so far, according to Bloomberg. Over the same period of time, the S&P 500 index has risen 25%. Piper Jaffray sent analysts to New York recently to gauge investor interest in the industry, which remains tepid. The company’s analysts wrote in a note: “Not surprisingly, interest in oil service stocks is at…