Middle East Crude-Oman, Dubai rise; Saudi Arabia cuts June OSPs to Asia

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SINGAPORE, May 5 (Reuters) - Middle East crude benchmarks Oman and Dubai advanced on Friday as a reduction in official selling prices (OSPs) by top oil exporter Saudi Arabia could help improve margins at refineries and encourage crude procurement. Saudi Arabia has cut the price of its June flagship crude to Asian buyers for the first time in four months, following a plunge in refining margins. The OSP for June-loading Arab Light to Asia was reduced by 25 cents a barrel from May to $2.55 a barrel over Oman/Dubai quotes, less than market expectations of 40 cents. Saudi Arabia also cut the June OSPs of other grades to Asia, with bigger trims than Arab Light, but traders said they are still higher than the spot market prices.


ADNOC ALLOCATION The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has informed at least three buyers in Asia that it will supply full contractual volumes of crude in July, steady from the previous month, trade sources said on Friday. But ADNOC has informed the term buyers that it will load 5% less crude in May, the minimum operational tolerance, the sources said, reflecting an additional cut announced last month by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their allies, a group known as OPEC+. SINGAPORE CASH DEALS Cash Dubai's premium to swaps rose 6 cents to $1.61 a barrel.
Seller-Buyer Price GLENCORE-PETROCHINA 73.25 GLENCORE-TOTAL 73.25 GLENCORE-PHILLIPS 66 73.25 GLENCORE-TRAFIGURA 73.25 GLENCORE-PETROCHINA 73.27 GLENCORE-PETROCHINA 73.26 BP-SHELL 73.27 RELIANCE-PETROCHINA 73.26 VITOL-TRAFIGURA 73.25 GLENCORE-SHELL 73.25 GLENCORE-TRAFIGURA 73.25 RELIANCE-TOTAL 73.24 EXXONMOBIL-PHILLIPS 66 73.24 GLENCORE-SHELL 73.25 RELIANCE-TOTAL 73.24 EXXONMOBIL-SHELL 73.25 RELIANCE-TOTAL 73.24 VITOL-SHELL 73.25 VITOL-SHELL 73.26


PRICES ($/BBL) CURRENT PREV SESSION DME OMAN 73.24 72.66 DME OMAN DIFF TO DUBAI 1.59 1.27 CASH DUBAI 73.26 72.94


ASIAN REFINERIES SK Innovation Co Ltd , owner of South Korea's top refiner SK Energy, said it planned to carry out routine maintenance scheduled for its No.5 crude distillation unit (CDU) and No. 1 residue fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) in Ulsan in the second quarter.


NEWS Russia is expected to increase seaborne oil exports from its western ports this month to a four-year high to meet Asian demand for low-priced oil, two sources familiar with the loading plans from the ports said. Iraq has extended an agreement with Jordan for another year to supply it with 10,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil under preferential terms, the Iraqi oil ministry said on Thursday. Russia's federal budget revenues from oil and gas, the lifeblood of its economy, fell 64% in April from the year-earlier period and declined by 5.9% from March, the finance ministry said on Thursday, as a result of higher subsidies to oil refineries.


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