* Indonesia's Pertamina issued a tender for June-arriving
crude due to close on Wednesday.
* India's HPCL closed a tender for June-arriving crude, but
results did not immediately emerge.
* Angola's state oil firm Sonangol last offered two spot
cargoes in May: a Gimboa at dated Brent minus $4.10 and a
Girassol at dated Brent plus $3.00.
* The persistence of French refinery strikes was squeezing
flows of Nigerian oil into one of its top markets, with sales to
South Asia and the United States not making up for the losses.
* Around 30 cargoes of April-loading Nigerian crude had yet
to find buyers while the new May-loading exports had barely
begun selling, traders said, making for an especially diffuclt
start to its trading cycle.
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* Oil production in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region
(KRI) is at risk after a halt in northern exports has forced
firms operating there to cease output or divert crude to
storage, where capacity is limited.
* Industrial action over the past three weeks has seen every
French refinery debilitated to some extent, hindering fuel
deliveries throughout the country and depressing European crude
prices as market players look to sell.
(Reporting by Noah Browning; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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