North Sea Crude-Flurry of trade for Forties, WTI Midland

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.

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