Med Crude-Urals crude differentials up again in NWE

Sept 19 (Reuters) - Urals crude oil differentials to dated Brent in northwest Europe rose again on Tuesday despite Russia's preliminary loading plan showing ample supplies ex-Baltic Sea ports on Oct (Shenzhen: 000069.SZ - news) . 1-10.

Urals loadings in Primorsk and Ust-Luga between Oct. 1 and 10 will rise to 2.2 million tonnes, up by 0.2 million tonnes from the same period of September.

Oil exports from Novorossiisk on Oct. 1-8 will go down to 0.46 million tonnes from 0.54 million tonnes in September, provisional document showed on Tuesday

In the Platts window Shell (LSE: RDSB.L - news) bought from Vitol 100,000 tonnes of Urals ex-Baltic for Oct. 6-10 loading at minus $1.67 a barrel to dated Brent.

Vitol offered 100,000 tonnes of the grade for Sept. 30 - Oct. 4 loading down to dated Brent minus $1.90 a barrel.

Total (LSE: 524773.L - news) showed two cargoes of the same size for loading in the Baltic on Oct. 2-6 and 6-10 at minus $1.35 and $1.20 a barrel to dated Brent respectively.

In the Mediterranean, there were no bids and offers for Urals, CPC Blend and Azeri BTC on Monday.

TENDERS

Russia's Surgutneftegaz issued a tender on Tuesday to sell 300,000 tonnes of Urals crude for loading from Baltic ports in October.

The tender closes on September 20 at 14:00 Moscow time. (Reporting by Gleb Gorodyankin; Editing by Greg Mahlich) ))