By Cassie Werber
LONDON--The volume of North Sea Forties Blend crude oil
available for January rose from December, traders said Friday.
The January loading program is scheduled at 329,000 barrels a
day, compared with 310,000 barrels a day in the previous month, the
program showed.
January program consists of 17 standard 600,000-barrel cargoes.
It is equivalent to a total volume of 10.2 million barrels, up from
9.6 million barrels a day in December.
More than 50 oil fields make up the Forties blend, with the
Buzzard field the largest component field, operated by Canadian
energy company Nexen Inc. (NXY). The Forties pipeline system is
fully owned and operated by BP PLC (BP).
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