March 30 - Supply of the five North Sea crude oil grades

underpinning the dated Brent benchmark will average about

453,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, down from 560,000 bpd in

April, loading programmes showed.

Brent, Forties, Oseberg, Ekofisk and Troll are the five

North Sea grades underpinning the dated Brent benchmark. U.S.

WTI Midland crude, which is also part of the benchmark, does not

have a loading programme.

Details of loadings in barrels per day are below:

MAY APRIL

BPD BPD

Forties 181,000 210,000

Ekofisk 181,000 187,000

Troll 45,000 70,000

Oseberg 23,000 70,000

Brent 23,000 23,000

TOTAL 453,000 560,000

(Reporting by Alex Lawler, Editing by Tomasz Janowski)