LONDON: A Nigerian militant group known as the Niger Delta Avengers which has been attacking oil facilities might agree to a ceasefire on Thursday to allow the government time to meet its demands, a community leader involved in peace efforts said.
Force majeure was still in place on Nigeria's Brass River, Bonny Light and Forcados exports.
Angola is running short of foreign reserves to pay for imports because its national oil firm has not contributed to state coffers since January, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos said.
ANGOLA
Petrogal picked up a cargo of CLOV crude from Sonangol that had previously been offered at a 50 cent discount to dated Brent, traders said. The actual trade level did not emerge.
Sonangol continued to offer its Aug 7-8 cargo of Dalia at dated Brent minus $3.20.
NIGERIA
ExxonMobil offered four cargoes of Qua Iboe at dated Brent plus $2.10 for August loading, but traders said the level was too high.
The grade has not traded at a $2 premium since 2014.
One trader said that around 15 July loading cargoes were still available.
The August programmes for Bonga and Brass River have still not emerged, a trader said, along with the schedules for other smaller grades.
TENDERS
Indonesia's Pertamina issued a term tender for September to December. It closes this week.
Indonesia's PTT also issued a buy tender for sweet crude grades that closes on Friday.
Taiwan's CPC picked up a cargo of August loading Palanca from Sonangol via a tender.
Traders were also working on tenders from India's IOC and BPCL.
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