BP Oil International Ltd v Glencore Energy UK Ltd – Queen’s Bench Division (Commercial Court) [2022] EWHC 499 (Comm) – Moulder J – 9 March 2022

Contracts – Sale of goods – Negotiations – Offer – Acceptance – Counteroffer – Whether contract concluded for shipment of cargo of crude oil – Quality of crude oil – Measure of damages – Sale of Goods Act 1979, section 53

By a contract of sale in April 2019 Glencore sold 100,000 mt +/- 10 per cent of Russian Export Blend Crude Oil (REBCO) to BPOI, to be loaded between 13 and 18 April 2019 and delivered cif Rotterdam.