Russia’s Rosneft seeks pre-payment, rouble conversion in oil tender – sources

Russia’s Rosneft offered its Urals and Siberian Light oil via tender for loading in May-June and asked tender participants for 100% prepayment and for converting the payment into roubles, according to two sources citing tender documents.

Rosneft offered 5.1 million tonnes of Urals oil loading from Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Novorossiisk on May 1-June 30 and 0.32 million tonnes of Siberian Light loading on May 1-June 30 from Novorossiisk, the sources said.