BERLIN (Reuters) – OMV nearly quadrupled its fourth-quarter core operating profit thanks to surging oil and gas prices, the Austrian company said on Thursday. Clean current cost of supplies (CCS) earnings before interest and tax (EBIT), which exclude special items and inventory gains or losses, rose to 2.00 billion euros ($2.26 billion) in the three months through December, slightly missing analyst forecasts of 2.12 billion euros and compared to 524 million euros in 2020, the group said. OMV also said it received a 455 million euro binding offer for the nitrogen business of its subsidiary Bore…