MOSCOW, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Crude oil exports and transit
from Russia's Black Sea ports were suspended due to storm, while
Azeri oil loadings from Turkey’s Ceyhan port remain halted,
Reuters sources said.
* Azeri BTC crude oil exports from Ceyhan remain shut, while
crude
oil continued to flow there via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)
pipeline, BP Azerbaijan said on Thursday.
* Estimates over when exports could resume varied widely, a
shipping agent familiar with the situation said on Thursday,
adding that the timeframe for a restart ranged from another two
days up to 10 days.
* A 'small' oil leak had been detected at Turkey's Ceyhan
terminal
after a major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria early on Monday
and it had been subsequently stopped.
* Urals and Siberian Light crude oil loadings from
Novorossiisk
have been suspended since Feb. 6, and exports from a terminal of
the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) since Feb. 7 due to a
storm, traders said.
PLATTS WINDOW
* No bids or offers were made for Urals, Azeri BTC or CPC
Blend in
the Platts window on Thursday, traders said.
NEWS
* Kazakhstan reduced oil and gas condensate output to 7.96
million
tonnes (1.87 million barrels per day) in January from 8.03
million tonnes (1.89 million bpd) in December.
* The delayed coker unit at Lukoil-owned NORSI oil refinery
in
Russia is set to be back online by the end of February after a
fire.
(Reporting by Reuters;
Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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