NSea Crude-Forties steady as STS cargo trades

* Shell buys July 9-11 STS Forties at dated BFOE -20 cents

* Statoil reported to have sold July 15 Gullfaks

LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Forties crude oil differentials
were steady on Tuesday as Shell bought a shipment out of
floating storage, while BP and Chevron both offered Forties
cargoes.

FORTIES FOT-E

* Within the afternoon trading window, Shell bought Vitol's
Forties cargo for loading via ship-to-ship (STS) transfer at
Scapa Flow for July 9-11 at dated BFOE minus 20 cents from the
vessel Abqaiq.

* Two more offers were heard in the trading window but no
bids as Shell held most Forties cargoes available for July.

BP offered Forties for July 10-12 loading at dated plus 10
cents and Chevron offered a July 12-14 cargo up to dated minus
10 cents.

NORWEGIAN GRADES

* Norwegian state-controlled producer StatoilHydro sold a
Gullfaks cargo for loading on July 15, traders said. This cargo
was offered at dated plus 1.40 on Tuesday.

* Statoil offered five crude cargoes on Wednesday, all for
loading in July, at steady asking prices from Tuesday (premiums
over dated BFOE; Tuesday's levels in brackets):

- Oseberg July 18 at +1.10 (+1.10)

- Gullfaks July 18 at +1.40 (+1.50)

- Troll July 16 at +2.10 (+2.20)

- Gullfaks July 20 at +$1.40 (New)

- Grane July 24 -$1.00 (New)

REFINING MARGINS

* Complex margins for processing Brent in Rotterdam slipped
to a profit of just 4 cents per barrel on Wednesday, down from
an average of $1.52 in the last five days. <REF/MARGIN1>

SWAPS

* CFDs were assessed at the following levels at 1530 GMT
(Friday's levels in brackets):

- 29-03/7 Aug -0.96 (-0.76)

- 6-10/7 Aug -0.83 (-0.65)

- 13-17/7 Aug -0.70 (-0.57)

- 20-24/7 Aug -0.58 (-0.46)

- 27-31/7 Aug -0.43 (-0.33)

- 3-7/8 Aug -0.28 (-0.20)

ICE MINUTE MARKER

The ICE set its August Brent afternoon marker at $69.11 per
barrel, up from $67.25 per barrel on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Joe Brock; editing by James Jukwey)