* Crude oil prices rise 1.5 percent
* Forecasts from National Semi, Texas Instruments weigh
* Futures up: Dow 26 pts; S&P 3.3 pts; Nasdaq 4.75 pts (Updates prices)
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, Sept 10 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were set to rise at the open on Friday after posting gains in six of the last seven sessions, buoyed by a jump in crude oil prices.
U.S. crude approached a three-week high near $76 per barrel after record U.S. inventories were offset by a forced shutdown of the biggest pipeline supplying Canadian oil to refineries in the Midwest and to a key storage hub in Oklahoma.
"Energy is trading up, and that's good news. Probably the market will be able to close week on an upbeat note," said Art Hogan, chief market analyst at Jefferies & Co in Boston.
"After spending the better part of the summer pricing in fears of a double-dip recession, the market is going to start pricing the fact that (it) most likely doesn't come about," said Hogan.
S&P 500 futures rose 3.3 points and were above fair value, a formula that evaluates pricing by taking into account interest rates, dividends and time to expiration on the contract. Dow Jones industrial average futures gained 26 points and Nasdaq 100 futures added 4.75 points.
Technology shares could limit gains, however, after chipmakers National Semiconductor Corp and Texas Instruments Inc issued quarterly financial targets that stoked investor worries about a sluggish economy. For details see.
National Semi shares tumbled 5.4 percent to $12.20 and Texas instruments dropped 1.4 percent to $23.51 in premarket trading.
"Intel let everybody know the group was not going to have a robust second half. National just confirms what we knew a couple of weeks ago," said Hogan.
Intel Corp warned Aug. 27 that third-quarter revenue could fall short of its own estimates by more than $1 billion..
U.S.-traded shares of Nokia Corp, the world's top cellphone maker, jumped 4.1 percent premarket after the company said it hired Microsoft Corp's Stephen Elop to replace Nokia's embattled chief executive..
Video game publishers will be in focus after data showed U.S. retail sales of video game equipment and software fell 10 percent in August, according to research group NPD, as the industry continued a months-long slump.
U.S. stocks rose on Thursday after stronger-than-expected jobs and trade data helped lift optimism about the economic recovery, although sentiment was fragile as investors fretted over European banks. Reports that Deutsche Bank plans to raise capital pressured European markets lower on Friday.