Seven months after loading a cargo of Urals crude that was contaminated with excess organic chlorides, Total said Thursday a trading house bought the oil in a tender on Wednesday. The price, a steep discount to the market, highlighted the ongoing costs of the contamination of the Russian crude earlier this year. The sale came on the same day that Hungary settled with Russia over the contaminated oil that it had received through the Druzhba pipeline as part of the same episode, which damaged the reputation of the world’s second-largest crude exporter. None of the parties to the agreement — Lukoil, MOL, and Transneft — gave financial details. Total awarded its tender for a 100,000 mt cargo — equivalent to 720,000 barrels — of contaminated oil to an undisclosed energy trader on Wednesday at a discount of more than $25/b to Dated Brent, Totsa — Total’s […]