SINGAPORE, Nov 25 (Reuters) -Middle East crude benchmark spot premiums of Dubai and Murban eased on Monday as oil prices slipped following 6% gains in the prior week.

Spot premium for Oman gained for a third session to an over three-week high.

Taiwan's CPC bought 4 million barrels of WTI Midland crude for February arrival via a tender on Friday, trade sources said.

Aramco Trading and Trafigura sold 2 million barrels each at premiums of $3.10-3.20 per barrel to January dated Brent prices on a cost and freight basis, they added.

SINGAPORE CASH DEALS

Cash Dubai's premium to swaps fell 4 cents to $0.83 a barrel.

Vitol will deliver a January-loading Upper Zakum crude cargo to TotalEnergies following the deals.

Mitsui will deliver a January-loading Oman crude cargo to PetroChina following the deals.

Unipec will deliver a January-loading al-Shaheen crude cargo to TotalEnergies following the deals.

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NEWS

China has issued an additional crude oil import quota of at least 5.84 million metric tons (116,800 barrels per day) to independent refiners for cargoes arriving by end-2024 and in early 2025, people familiar with the situation said on Monday.

Kazakhstan is considering shipping a significant part of its oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline in the medium term, Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliyev said on Monday.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the energy department believes fossil fuels are the key to ending world poverty, which, he says, is a greater problem than climate change's "distant" threat, according to a report he penned as CEO of oilfield services company Liberty Energy LBRT.N.

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Reporting by Siyi Liu and Florence Tan in Singapore;

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