Petroleum major Bharat Petroleum has bought Libyan Brega crude in its latest tender. This is the second time in this year it has bought Libyan crude, a company source said on Monday. BPCL bought 600,000 barrels of November Brega crude from French major Total, the source added, but declined to give price details. "We were looking for low-sulphur crude," she said.Earlier this year BPCL had bought 600,000 barrels of Brega crude for July loading and has entered into a term agreement with Libya to lift around 500,000 tonnes of crude. The company has been diversifying its crude slate. For the first time the company bought cargo of Kazak CPC Blend crude earlier this year and has buying light sour Abu Dhabi crude. It bought 1.6 million barrels of Russian Urals crude for October loading in its previous tender, the first time in almost nine months that it bought the Russian crude through tender.
