Ecuador's Petroecuador awards 1.4 mln bbl crude export tender to Shell unit
QUITO, March 6 (Reuters) - Ecuador's state-owned oil company Petroecuador said on Saturday that it had awarded a tender to export some 1.44 million barrels of Oriente-grade crude to a unit of Royal Dutch Shell PLC .
Shell Western Supply and Trading presented the best offer of six companies that submitted bids, offering to pay a discount of $1.39 to West Texas Intermediate crude prices.
Shell beat out offers by Norway's Equinor ASA , China's Petrochina International Co Ltd, U.S. refiner Phillips 66 , trading company Trafigura Pte Ltd and Unipec America Inc, a unit of China's Sinopec, Petroecuador said.
Shell will export the oil through for shipments of around 360,000 barrels each during the month of March, Petroecuador said.