Hindustan Petroleum buys 2 million bbl West African oil for Sept via tender, sources say

India's state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp has bought two million barrels of West African oil through a ‌tender ⁠for ⁠September delivery, two trade sources who participate in the market said on Thursday.

HPCL has bought 1 million barrels each of ⁠Nigerian grades ‌Forcadoes and Bonga from trader Shell for ⁠its 300,000 barrels per day Vizag refinery in the southern state of Andhara Pradesh, they said.

Pricing details were not immediately known.


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Previosly, HPCL bought ‌two million barrels of oil from ​West Africa ​for ⁠its 180,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery in the desert state of Rajasthan.

The ​companies do not typically comment on their trade.