News: EQE Med crude-Urals diffs unchanged, traders await January loading dates

MOSCOW, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Urals crude oil differentials to dated Brent were stable again on Friday amid low trading activity as traders waited for January loading dates.

• Urals oil loading dates for early January may emerge in the middle of the next week, traders said.
• Market participants were waiting for the oil export and transit schedule from Russia for the first quarter of 2022, which is also expected over the course of the next week.
• Russia's oil and gas condensate production rose to 10.91 million barrels per day (bpd) between Dec. 1 and Dec. 9, from an average output of 10.89 million bpd recorded last month, an industry source familiar with the data told Reuters on Friday.

PLATTS WINDOW

• There were no bids or offers for Urals, CPC Blend or Azeri BTC in the Platts window on Friday, traders said. NEWS

• Belarusian oil company Belorusneft has cancelled its 2022 export plans to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline following new European Union sanctions on the company, three traders familiar with the matter said on Friday.

• Saudi Aramco 2222.SE has notified at least two North Asian buyers that it will supply full contractual volumes of crude oil in January, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.