MOSCOW, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Urals crude differentials to
dated Brent kept stable on Wednesday in opaque market, while
Russia's loading plans for its Western ports in February were
slow to emerge.
* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on
Wednesday
that the situation with oil output and exports in the country is
stable, despite Western price caps and sanctions.
* An OPEC+ panel endorsed the oil producer group's current
output
policy at a meeting on Wednesday, leaving production cuts agreed
last year in place amid hopes of higher Chinese demand and
uncertain prospects for Russian supply.
* Kazakhstan aims to boost oil exports via the Caspian
Pipeline
Consortium (CPC) system by 8.7% year-on-year to 56.5 million
tonnes in 2023, the vice energy minister said on Wednesday.
PLATTS WINDOW
* No bids or offers were made for Urals, Azeri BTC or CPC
Blend in
the Platts window on Wednesday, traders said.
NEWS
* Russia's December oil and gas condensate output edged up
to
10.92 million barrels per day (bpd)from 10.90 million bpd in
November, according to Reuters calculations and data published
on Wednesday by the Rosstat statistics office.
* Germany will receive the first shipment of Kazakh oil via
the
Druzhba pipeline in the first half of February, Kazakhstan's
energy ministry said on Wednesday.
* Russian state oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said that a
pumping station on the Druzhba pipeline was shelled on Tuesday,
but that the pipeline was working as normal on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Reuters;)
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