MOSCOW, March 10 (Reuters) - Russian Urals crude
differentials held steady on Friday, while oil loadings from the
Black Sea port of Novorossiisk were suspended due to a storm,
market sources told Reuters.
* As of March 10, the port has still to load 100,000 tonnes
of
Urals from a February loading plan.
* Due to repeated storms Novorossiisk failed to load 0.98
million
tonnes of crude from the February programme, according to data
from market sources. Of this 0.82 million tonnes were carried
over to March, while the loading of 0.16 million tonnes was
cancelled, the data showed.
PLATTS WINDOW
* No bids or offers were made for Urals, Azeri BTC or CPC
Blend in
the Platts window on Friday, traders said.
NEWS
* Japan's Inpex will send a test batch of 7,000
tonnes of
Kashagan crude from Kazakhstan via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC)
pipeline this month, pipeline operator KazTransOil said on Friday.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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