LONDON, March 25 (Reuters) – Angola’s state oil firm, Sonangol, had not yet allocated its May cargoes on Thursday, with traders expecting all cargoes to go to term customers.
* Sonangol usually keeps a few cargoes to trade spot.
* Traders said the allocations delay was unusually long. They typically emerge within a few days of the programme. The May programme came out last week while an overhang of Angolan was slow to clear.
* Uruguay’s ANCAP was said to have bought a cargo of Nigerian Qua Iboe from Trafigura in its latest tender for mid-May arrival.
* China’s Unipec has sold some of the Angolan crude it has been offering for several weeks but still had Antan, Gindungo, Mostarda and Plutonio available.
* Two overhang cargoes of Angolan crude were sold to independent Chinese refiners. Equinor sold a March loading Hungo and BP sold a Mostarda.
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