LOADING PROGRAMMES
* In April, Brent will load three cargoes, Troll seven
cargoes and Ekofisk and Forties 10 cargoes each, according to
trade sources.
* S&P Global Platts will include U.S. WTI Midlands crude in
its Brent oil benchmark from June, as previously guided, S&P's
Vera Blei said in a benchmark update at the London Energy Forum
on Monday.
* Platts will accept 11 U.S. Gulf Coast terminals - eight in
Corpus Christi and three in Houston with a combined storage
capacity of 75 million barrels - as supply points for WTI
Midland crude into the Brent benchmark complex, she added.
* Russian oil pipeline monopoly Transneft said on Monday
that it had started pumping oil from Kazakhstan to Germany via
Poland through the Druzhba pipeline, while halting deliveries to
Poland, Russian news agencies reported.
PLATTS WINDOW
* Indications are on a free-on-board (FOB) basis unless
marked as cost, insurance and freight (CIF) or delivered at
place (DAP).
* There was no activity in the trading window, a trade
source said.
(Reporting by Shadia Nasralla
Editing by Mark Potter)
