Med crude-Urals diffs steady, CPC Blend crude loadings seen flat in April vs March

MOSCOW, March 19 (Reuters) - Urals crude differentials kept stable on Wednesday, while CPC Blend loadings in April from the Russian Black Sea terminal of Yuzhnaya Ozereevka, near Novorossiisk, were set in line with the preliminary March plan.

Oil exports via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium have been set at 1.7 million barrels per day, or around 6.5 million metric tons, for April, unchanged from current month, three sources familiar with the plan told Reuters.

Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of trying to sabotage a 30-day moratorium on striking each other's energy infrastructure, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to such a temporary halt.

The overnight Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at the oil depot, which is located near the village of Kavkazskaya in the Krasnodar region, Russia's regional authorities said earlier.

PLATTS WINDOW

• No bids or offers were shown for Urals, Azeri BTC and CPC Blend in the Platts window on Wednesday.

NEWS

• The price of Russia's oil blend in roubles so far in March is on average around 24% below the level targeted in the federal budget for 2025 due to the currency's firming and weaker global oil prices, according to Reuters calculations.

• A fire at the private Yaysk oil refinery in Russia's Kemerovo region has been put out, Ilya Serdyuk, the local governor, said in a post on Telegram.