SINGAPORE, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Asia-Pacific crude trade slowed on Monday as the market is waiting for loading programmes to gauge December supply. * TENDERS - Indian Oil Corp (IOC) may have bought 1 million barrels each of Bonga and Forcados from Shell in its tender, trade sources said, although this could not be confirmed. - India's MRPL has floated a tender seeking an oil parcel of one million barrels for the first time, for December loading, a tender document showed, as the refiner aims to start its single point mooring (SPM) by then. The tender, seeking sweet barrels, would close on Oct. 10 and bids would remain valid until Oct. 12, the document issued on Friday showed. The company seeks to import 650,000, or a million barrel size cargo, at the western port of New Mangalore. * REFINERY - Sinopec Corp's Qilu refinery is closing on Monday a 160,000 barrels-per-day crude unit for a planned 25-day maintenance, an industry official said. The plant's crude throughput will be down by a third this month to around 140,000 bpd, versus 212,000 bpd last month, said the official with direct knowledge of the plant's productions. * MARKET NEWS - Vietnam is projected to produce 16.18 million tonnes, or 325,000 barrels per day of crude oil this year, beating an initial target by more than 2 percent, after putting new wells in operation, state oil and gas group Petrovietnam said. - Only two of the 16 cargoes of North Sea Forties crude oil due to load in October have retained their original dates, trade and shipping sources said on Friday, as almost the entire schedule is deferred due to lower-than-expected production. CRUDE Price Prev Change NOV Brent 110.81 112.16 -1.35 NOV Brent/Dubai EFS DUB-EFS-1M 3.85 3.77 +0.08 PRODUCT CRACKS NOV fuel oil crack -8.31 -7.24 -1.07 NOV gasoil crack 19.74 19.52 +0.22 NOV naphtha crack -6.92 -7.05 +0.13 COMPLEX REFINERY MARGINS Today 11.56 Last 5 days 9.42 Last 365 days 7.38

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