Indian Oil Corp has made its first purchase of Canadian oil, taking a cargo of light oil for January lifting via a tender, trade sources said on Thursday.
IOC, India's biggest refiner, bought one million barrels of Canadian White Rose from Glencore, the sources said.
The refiner also bought a very large crude carrier containing a million barrels each of Nigerian Bonga and Bonny Light crude from Vitol for January loading, they said.
A VLCC can carry about two million barrels of crude.
Price details of the cargoes weren't immediately known.
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