Russia's Seaborne Urals Exports Seen Down in April

Russia's Urals crude exports and transit from the Baltic Sea ports and Novorossiisk are set to fall in April by 2.5 percent on a daily basis to 8.14 million tonnes from 8.623 million tonnes in March, a preliminary loading plan showed on Tuesday.

According to the schedule, Russian oil supplies from the Baltic ports will rise by 6 percent on a daily basis due to higher volumes coming out of Primorsk.

Russia is due to export 3.995 million tonnes of Urals crude from Primorsk in April compared with 3.5 million tonnes in the final loading plan for March.

It will export and transit 2.2 million tonnes of Urals from Ust-Luga in April, down from 2.538 million tonnes in March.

Urals flows through the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk are set to fall by 22.3 percent on a daily basis compared with March to reach 1.945 million tonnes, the preliminary plan showed.

Novorossiisk will also load 0.405 million tonnes of low-sulphur crude oil.

(Reporting by Gleb Gorodyankin; Editing by Alexander Winning and Susan Thomas)