US Cash Crude-Grades ease as WTI/Brent spread narrowest in 3 months
Sept 17 (Reuters) -U.S. cash crude prices eased on Tuesday, dealers said, as the spread between U.S. West Texas Intermediate and Brent crude remained weak, and as Gulf of Mexico output rebounded after Hurricane Francine.
Mars Sour fell 50 cents to a midpoint of a $1.90 discount, while WTI Midland eased 5 cents.
The WTI/Brent spread narrowed 2 cents to minus $3.71, its narrowest in 3 months. A spread below minus $4 discourages exports of US crude.
Only about 6%, or 101,778 barrels per day, of crude production in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico were offline in the aftermath of Hurricane Francine, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Tuesday.
The hurricane caused U.S. offshore oil and gas producers to lose 2.47 million barrels of oil due to shut-ins that began last week, according to a Reuters tally of BSEE daily estimates.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration will seek up to 6 million barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a source familiar with issue said on Tuesday, a purchase that if completed will match its largest yet in the replenishment of the stash after a historic sale in 2022.
* Light Louisiana Sweet WTC-LLS for October delivery fell 20 cents at a midpoint of a $1.50 premium and was seen bid and offered between a $1.25 and $1.75 a barrel premium to U.S. crude futures CLc1
* Mars Sour WTC-MRS fell 50 cents at a midpoint of a $1.9 discount and was seen bid and offered between a $2.10 and $1.70 a barrel discount to U.S. crude futures CLc1
* WTI Midland WTC-WTM fell 5 cents at a midpoint of a 50-cent premium and was seen bid and offered between a 25-cent and 75-cent a barrel premium to U.S. crude futures CLc1
* West Texas Sour WTC-WTS fell 15 cents at a midpoint of a 30-cent discount and was seen bid and offered between discount of 60 cents and parity to U.S. crude futures CLc1
* WTI at East Houston WTC-MEH, also known as MEH, traded between a 75-cent and $1.15 a barrel premium to U.S. crude futures CLc1
* ICE Brent November futures LCOc1 rose 95 cents to settle at $73.7 a barrel on Tuesday
* WTI October crude CLc1 futures rose $1.1 to settle at $71.19 a barrel on Tuesday .
* The Brent/WTI spread WTCLc1-LCOc1 narrowed 2 cents to minus $3.71, after hitting a high of minus $3.57 and a low of minus $3.74.
Reporting by Arathy Somasekhar in Houston; Editing by Will Dunham and David Gregorio
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