LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Few cargoes traded as traders
await results of several tenders and market economics
increasingly favour storage of crude.
* Angola's state oil company Sonangol was offering its last
two spot cargoes, both of which have been significantly marked
down in recent days.
* Dalia crude was being offered at dated Brent plus 30 cents
and Cabinda at plus 40 cents.
* Around 50 million barrels of unsold crude for September
export, much of it from Nigeria, continued to glut the market as
margins remained sluggish and Chinese buying all but halted.
* China's Unipec again held off on offering West African oil
for sale on the Platts window after selling several cargoes.
* Indonesia's Pertamina, India's IOC and Uruguay's Ancap
were all running buy tenders for which West African crude is
eligible, with all set to close on Wednesday.
* A stalled global economic recovery is leading to a fresh
build-up of global oil supplies, pushing traders including
Trafigura to book tankers to store millions of barrels of crude
oil and refined fuels at sea again. * Traders noted no West African crude appears to have been
bought to be put into storage and the charterings mostly
involved refined products suffering especially poor demand.
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