LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) - As many as four U.S. WTI Midland crude cargoes traded in the Platts window on Monday, as well as two cargoes of North Sea Forties.
PLATTS WINDOW
* Indications are on a free-on-board (FOB) basis unless marked as cost, insurance and freight $(CIF)$ or delivered at place (DAP).
* WTI Midland: Petroineos bought a June 9-13 cargo from Aramco at dated Brent plus $1.35 CIF Rotterdam.
* WTI Midland: Litasco bought a May 31 - June 4 cargo from ExxonMobil at dated Brent plus $1.05 CIF Rotterdam.
* WTI Midland: Trafigura bought a June 13-17 cargo from Aramco at dated Brent plus $1.50 CIF Rotterdam.
* WTI Midland: BP bought a June 17-21 cargo from Aramco at dated Brent plus $1.60 CIF Rotterdam.
* The average of the four deal levels was around dated plus $1.38 CIF Rotterdam, which equates to approximately dated Brent plus 46 cents on a FOB basis, Reuters calculations showed.
* On Friday, one WTI Midland cargo had traded, with Vitol buying June 6-10 from Gunvor at dated Brent plus $1.20 CIF Rotterdam.
* Forties: Glencore bought June 9-11 dates from Gunvor at dated Brent flat.
* Forties: Glencore bought June 5-7 dates from ExxonMobil at dated Brent plus 15 cents.
* Forties: Glencore also bid for a June 13-19 cargo at dated plus 40 cents.
* Forties was last offered in the window on Thursday, when Gunvor offered June 9-11 at dated plus 15 cents.
* Johan Sverdrup: BP bid for two cargoes, the higher of which was for June 17-21 dates at dated plus 70 cents.
(Reporting by Robert Harvey)
((Robert.Harvey@thomsonreuters.com; +447552256587;))
Editing by Tomasz Janowski
NORTH SEA CRUDE OIL DIFFERENTIALS AND OUTRIGHT PRICES:
0#BFO-DIF 0#C-E
Dated BFO BFO-
Brent BFO-BRT BFO-E
Forties BFO-FOT FOT-E
Oseberg BFO-OSE OSE-E
Ekofisk BFO-EKO EKO-E
Monthly North Sea crude loading programmes O/LOAD
OPEC OPEC NSEA North Sea
CRU crude oil PROD oil products
DRV derivatives PRO/E European products
OILOIL NYMOIL, IPEOIL, OILSPD, OILARB
CRDWLDPRODEUR, PRODUS, APROD
ENERGY energy speed guide CRUDE/1 crude speed guide