LONDON, July 16 (Reuters) - Angola's preliminary export
programme for September emerged on Tuesday, indicating the
number of cargoes would match those originally planned for last
month at 45.
ANGOLA
* A cargo from the offshore Saturno stream was expected to
be among the September exports after it was delayed then
deferred past August due to an outage.
* Industry sources attributed the shutdown to maintenance
and said it went back online over the weekend.
* Only a small handful of August loading cargoes remained as
Asian margins and freight rates improved while Chinese refiners
sought to meet quotas.
* Although it was an improvement on the July loading period
in which Chinese buying was significantly down, it marks only
the second overhang for Angolan oil in 2019.
NIGERIA
* Nigerian state oil firm NNPC issued award letters on
Monday for contracts to exchange crude oil for imported fuel
2019 -- known as Direct Sale and Direct Purchase (DSDP).
* The contracts are for one year, involve 15 groupings with
at least 34 companies in total, and are expected to start with
October-loading cargoes.
* July-loading cargoes were heard to have likely cleared,
while a normal overhang of around two dozen cargoes loading in
August was expected as preliminary programmes for September are
expected in the coming days.
* Genscape reported on Friday that the 85,000 bpd CDU and
41,000 bpd VDU in the Point Breeze section of the refinery are
back online. * Traders and Refinitiv Eikon ship tracking data indicate
that there has been no large scale diversion of West African
crude cargoes away from the Philadelphia PES refinery, a
consistent buyer of WAF grades.
TENDERS
* Indonesia's Pertamina issued a tender for one cargo per
month for October-December delivery set to close on Monday.
* Astron Energy in South Africa has issued a tender for a
West African grade closing today, though no details emerged.
RELATED NEWS
* Ten Turkish sailors were taken hostage by armed pirates
who attacked a Turkish-flagged cargo ship off the coast of
Nigeria, the vessel's owner said on Tuesday, adding that another
eight sailors were left safely aboard. * Refineries in Taiwan and South Korea are testing the
market for fuels that meet new rules for low-sulphur ship fuel
starting next year, exporting some cargoes of very low-sulphur
fuel oil (VLSFO) this month.