* India's IOC sought to buy April-loading crude in a tender due to close on Friday.
* Indonesia's Pertamina was running a buy tender valid until Friday for May arrival cargoes.
* China's Unipec bought several cargoes of Angolan crude on the spot market,
confirming market expectations that demand would strongly return after COVID-19
restrictions there were relaxed.
* Unipec purchased two cargoes of Nemba and one of Saxi from Eni and
Chevron.
* Angola's state oil company Sonangol last offered April loading Cabinda at
dated Brent plus $2.50 and Dalia at dated Brent flat.
* Vitol yet again offered a March-loading cargo of Angolan Dalia, cutting
offer levels consistently for over a month with no success.
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* India's fuel demand rose more than 5% year on year in February, but hit
its lowest since October 2022, data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis
Cell (PPAC) of the oil ministry showed on Thursday.
* Workers striking over proposed changes to France's pension system
continued to block fuel deliveries and reduce electricity production at several
sites on Thursday.
(Reporting by Noah Browning; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)
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