Iraq's Oil Marketing Company (SOMO) kept its official selling price (OSP) for Basra Medium crude to Asia unchanged in May at minus $0.15 a barrel to the average of Oman/Dubai quotes, a price document reviewed by Reuters on Thursday showed.
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which handles 1% of global oil flows, has stopped oil loadings through its single mooring points (SPM) since April 10 because of a planned shutdown, it said on Wednesday.
Russian gas flows to Europe remain stable, but Moscow is starting to face problems in selling its crude oil and oil products as Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine and voluntary actions by buyers start to bite.
Norway's trade surplus rose to a record high in October as revenues from its offshore oil and gas fields soared, national statistics agency (SSB) data showed on Monday.