MOSCOW, May 10 (Reuters) - Urals crude differentials
were little changed on Wednesday in muted trade, market sources
say, while Reuters calculations show FOB prices for the grade
remain below the Western price cap of $60 per barrel on weaker
Brent prices.
* Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel on Wednesday, ending
a
three-day rally as an unexpected jump in U.S. oil inventories
sparked demand concerns.
* Kazakhstan boosted oil exports from the Caspian port of
Aktau to
Azerbaijan's Baku to increase April's flows via the
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline by 75% from March to 152,400
tonnes.
* Pakistan is planning to blend newly purchased Russian
crude with
Arabian light crude in order to create a mixture that will be
more easily processed by the nation's oil refineries.
PLATTS WINDOW
* No bids or offers were made for Urals, Azeri BTC or CPC
Blend in
the Platts window on Wednesday, traders said.
NEWS
* Oilfield firm SLB has made several operational and
structural changes to keep its Russian business in compliance
with Western sanctions on oil equipment and technology
transfers.
* Russia's oil pipeline operator Transneft said on Wednesday
that
a filling point on the Europe-bound Druzhba pipeline in a
Russian region bordering Ukraine had been attacked.
* Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) sees no dip in
demand
from Asian customers as cheap Russian oil flows into the
continent.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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