London — Angola’s June loading programme is expected to emerge next week, traders said on Thursday, while the emergence of the Nigerian schedules is unlikely to appear until after the Easter holiday.
* About 6-8 cargoes remained from the May Angolan programme, mostly held by Equinor.
* Chevron was still offering a cargo of Cabinda at dated Brent plus $1.70 and Glencore was offering end-May Saxi at dated Brent plus $1.50.
* India’s IOC awarded its buy tender for West African crude loading June 1-10 to Total and Vitol. Total will send a cargo of CLOV and Vitol a VLCC of Egina and Agbami, a trader said.
* About 25 cargoes of Nigerian crude were still available from the May programme.
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- Reuters