LONDON: Vitol and Total won a tender from India's IOC which closed on Thursday, with the latter due to send a Suezmax for an unspecified grade of West African crude.
NIGERIA
* European gasoline cracks have benefitted from the shutdown at Philadelphia's main refinery, providing a boon for Nigerian.
* Although the Philadelphia Energy Refinery (PES) facility was a consistent buyer of West African and especially Nigerian crude, only one cargo bound for Philadelphia has been diverted since a fire partially shut down operations.
* The imports suggest Nigerian and other crude bound for PES may be diverted to nearby Philadelphia refineries, a boost to the Atlantic coast products market.
* Price offerings remained relatively high but were beginning to come off, with ENI offering a cargo of Brass River at a premium of $2.20 above dated Brent, down from last week.
* Data from the US Energy Information Administration on Friday showed the US had imported no Nigerian oil in its latest survey period, also importing none from Kuwait and Venezuela.
* Around 6 cargoes remain for July loading.
ANGOLA
* The preliminary September loading program is due at the beginning of next week.
* Traders said a days-long outage at the Saturno offshore field was due to maintenance.
* Angola's Sonangol had first offered a cargo of the grade for a August 29-30 loading after already delaying it once and will now offer it for September 2-3.
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