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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