SINGAPORE, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Trade in the Middle East crude market slowed on Friday as most of the November cargoes have been sold except for Basra Light. A wide bid-offer gap for the Iraqi grade has stalled trade this week and a tender by an Indian refiner could determine its spot differential. *TENDERS - Indian refiner Hindustan Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL) issued a tender seeking 2 million barrels of Basra Light for November loading. It is expected to award the tender later on Friday. Sellers offered November Basra Light at parity to its official selling price (OSP), but buyers, mainly Indian refiners, were looking at discounts of about 20 cents a barrel. October Basra Light was sold at discounts between 15 and 20 cents a barrel to OSP. *TRADES - A total 36 Dubai partials was traded on the Platts window with Chinaoil as the main buyer and Unipec the key seller. Prices range from $110.25 to $110.60 a barrel. *OSP - The OSP for Oman crude in November will rise by $2.19 to $111.24 a barrel, Reuters calculations based on data from the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) showed. The November OSP for Dubai crude, which was set at a 25-cents a barrel discount to DME Oman, will be at $110.99 a barrel. *SUPPLY - Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC), the main exporter for OPEC member the United Arab Emirates, will supply full contractual crude oil volumes to Asia in November, steady from October, industry sources said. *REFINERY - Japan's TonenGeneral Sekiyu said it had resumed normal operations of the sole 156,000 barrels per day No.1 crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Sakai refinery in western Japan on Wednesday after an unplanned shutdown. - Japan's Seibu Oil Co Ltd, a Showa Shell Sekiyu KK group refiner, is expected to restart its sole 120,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Yamaguchi refinery in western Japan by early next week following planned maintenance. - Japan's top oil refiner JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp plans to refine 5.21 million kilolitres (1.06 million barrels per day) of crude oil for domestic consumption in October, up 6 percent from a year earlier, a company executive said. *MARKET NEWS - Japan, one of the major buyers of Iranian crude, is set to import about 30 percent less crude oil from Iran for the rest of this year compared to a year earlier, Yasushi Kimura, president of the Petroleum Association of Japan (PAJ), said. The country's crude imports from Iran was down 66.8 percent in August to 497,961 kilolitres (101,035 barrels per day), the trade ministry said. - A Chinese shipyard has delivered the first of 12 supertankers to Iran, giving Tehran extra capacity to transport its oil to Asia as it struggles against Western sanctions, but it is unclear if the ship has the permits necessary to call at global ports. - India's oil imports from Iran fell nearly 5 percent in August from July, tanker discharge data made available to Reuters showed on Thursday, in a third straight monthly drop that supports the country's case for renewal of a waiver from U.S. sanctions. - Russia will boost exports of ESPO crude blend from the Pacific port of Kozmino by 300,000 tonnes (2.2 million barrels) in November compared with October at 1.6 million tonnes after the expansion of the Asian pipeline, a loading schedule seen by Reuters showed. Next year, Transneft expects to load 20 million tonnes of ESPO, up by one third from its plan for 2012. - Venezuela began early production on Thursday at two joint ventures with Russian and Vietnamese investors in the South American OPEC nation's huge Orinoco heavy crude belt. CRUDE Price Prev Change NOV DME Oman diff to Dubai swaps +1.60 +1.02 +0.58 NOV Brent 112.59 110.39 +2.20 NOV Dubai 108.99 106.89 +2.13 NOV DME Oman 110.59 107.91 +2.68 NOV Brent/Dubai EFS 3.60 3.50 +0.10 PRODUCT CRACKS OCT fuel oil crack -6.78 -6.65 -0.13 OCT gasoil crack +19.13 +18.86 +0.27 NOV naphtha crack -7.26 -7.03 -0.23 COMPLEX REFINERY MARGINS Today 9.56 Last 5 days 9.59 Last 365 days 7.40

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