Middle East Crude-Benchmarks edge up; Saudi OSPs awaited

Reuters12-04
Middle East Crude-Benchmarks edge up; Saudi OSPs awaited

SINGAPORE, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Middle East crude benchmark spot premiums of Oman, Dubai and Murban rose slightly on Thursday, as the market was awaiting Saudi Arabia to release its official selling prices for January.

Asian refining sources expected Saudi to cut its flagship Arab Light crude by 30-40 cents to the lowest in five years.

India's MRPL issued a tender, which will close on December 5, to seek for one to two million barrels of crude, according to a tender document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

SINGAPORE CASH DEALS

Cash Dubai's premium to swaps rose 5 cents to 73 cents a barrel.

Hengli will deliver a February-loading Upper Zakum crude cargo to Glencore following the deals.

SELLER-BUYER

PRICE ($/BBL)

HENGLI-GLENCORE

63.51

SHELL-GLENCORE

63.53

HENGLI-GLENCORE

63.51

EQUINOR-GLENCORE

63.51

HENGLI-GLENCORE

63.51

HENGLI-GLENCORE

63.51

UNIPEC-GLENCORE

63.51

BP-GLENCORE

63.51

HENGLI-GLENCORE

63.51

SINOCHEM-GLENCORE

63.51

TRAFIGURA-TOTAL

63.50

HENGLI-TOTAL

63.50

BP-GLENCORE

63.50

SHELL-TOTAL

63.50

PRICES ($/BBL)

CURRENT

PREV SESSION

GME OMAN

63.57

63.43

GME OMAN DIFF TO DUBAI

0.80

0.71

CASH DUBAI

63.50

63.40

NEWS

U.S. crude and fuel inventories rose last week as refining activity picked up, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday.

Austrian businessman Bernd Bergmair, former majority owner of an adult entertainment group including website Pornhub, has approached the U.S. Treasury about buying international assets of sanctioned Russian oil major Lukoil LKOH.MM, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Turkey is telling Russia, Ukraine, and all other parties to keep energy infrastructure out of their conflict and wants energy flows to continue uninterrupted, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said after a series of attacks off Turkey's Black Sea coast.

Ukraine has hit the Druzhba oil pipeline in Russia's central Tambov region, a source in Ukraine's GUR military intelligence said on Wednesday.

For crude prices, oil product cracks and refining margins, please click on the RICs below.

Brent

BRENTSGMc1

Dubai

DUBSGSWMc2

GME Oman

OQc1

Brent/Dubai EFS

DUB-EFS-1M

PRODUCT CRACKS

Fuel oil crack

FO180SGCKMc1

Gasoil crack

GO10SGCKMc1

Naphtha crack

NAF-SIN-CRK

Gasoline crack

GL92-SIN-CRK

Complex refining margins

REF/MARGIN1

(Reporting by Siyi Liu in Singapore; Editing by Eileen Soreng)

((siyi.liu@thomsonreuters.com;))

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Crude oil supply outages in Asia                CRU/OUT-ASIA-O      
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