Middle East Crude

　In the trade of September-loading Al Shaheen, some end-users moved to buy spot cargoes at the same time of a sell tender by state-owned Qatar Energy (QE). Those end-users aimed to finish procurements before spot cargoes were cleared from the market. Idemisu Kosan in Japan this week purchased at least two cargoes of Al Shaheen at prices linked to Dubai quotes. The details were sketchy but French Total and Europea Glencore sold one cargo each. QE earlier allocated September 4-5 loading Al Shaheen to Glencore, 10-11 and 12-13 loading to French TotalEnergies. Both companies could have resold some of these cargoes to Idemitsu Kosan.

Asia Pacific Crude

　In A supply program of September-loading Angolan grades was released. A total of 31 cargoes planned to be loaded, unchanged from August-loading. Of these, Angolan producer Sonangol planned to handle 7 cargoes. Four cargoes of Dalia, three cargoes each for Hungo and Mostarda, two cargoes each of Agogo, Cabinda, Clove, Girrasol, Nemba, Pazflor, Plutonio and Sangos, and one cargo each for Gindungo, Kisange, Mondo, Olombendo and Saturno.

African/European/Russian/American Crude

　TIS Petroleum in Indonesia issued a sell tender for September-loading Indonesian grades. The tender closed at 13:00 on Monday, Singapore time with validity until 20:00 on the same day. It offered five cargoes in total, or 80,000bbl of Arun condensate for Sep 23-27 loading, 180,000bbl of Minas for Sep 25-30 loading. It also offered 150,000bbl of Pangkah for Sep 25-30 loading, 85,000bbl of Lalang for Sep 25-30 loading and 110,000bbl of BD Karapan for Sep 27-30 loading. In the tender, several players such as US ExxonMobil were believed to have participated.