North Sea Crude-Ekofisk dips, schedules emerge
LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) -North Sea Ekofisk and U.S. WTI Midland dipped lower on Wednesday, while October loading programmes for North Sea benchmark grades started to surface.
LOADINGS
* Traders digested October loading programmes for Oseberg and Troll on Wednesday.
* The grades will load three and four cargoes respectively in October, the programmes showed.
* September loadings for both grades were set at three cargoes apiece, for comparison.
PLATTS WINDOW
* Indications are on a free-on-board (FOB) basis unless marked as cost, insurance and freight (CIF) or delivered at place (DAP).
* Ekofisk: TotalEnergies bought a Sep. 22-24 cargo from Equinor at dated Brent plus +$3.30.
* On Tuesday, Equinor had offered the same dates at dated Brent plus $3.55, before withdrawing the offer.
* WTI Midland: Aramco offered a Sep. 24-28 cargo at dated Brent plus $3.00 CIF Rotterdam.
* The WTI offer equated to around dated plus $1.82 on a FOB equivalent basis, Reuters calculations showed.
* In the previous session, Aramco had offered the same dates at dated Brent plus $3.05 CIF Rotterdam.
* WTI remained the cheapest grade underpinning the dated Brent benchmark on Wednesday.
Reporting by Robert Harvey; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri
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