India’s BPCL has awarded a tender to buy 6 million barrels of U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Midlandcrude from Occidental in the fourth quarter, traders said on Tuesday.

The U.S. producer will deliver 2 million barrels of WTI each month to BPCL, they added.

Pricing details were not immediately available.

Separately, BPCL also bought 1 million barrels of WTI Midland oil from Vitol for October arrival, traders said.

The price of the spot cargo was $4.50-$4.60 per barrel above September dated Brent, one source said.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Florence Tan and Nidhi Verma; editing by Jason Neely)