UPDATE 1-Nigeria's NNPC awards 2017 crude oil term contracts to 39 companies

(Adds details of contracts; TABLE)

By Alexis Akwagyiram and Libby George

LAGOS/LONDON, Jan 3 (Reuters) - State-run Nigerian National

Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has awarded its 2017 crude oil term

contracts to 39 companies, the company said on Tuesday.

The contracts covering about 1.31 million barrels per day

(bpd) of crude oil were awarded to 18 Nigerian companies, 11

international trading houses, five foreign refineries, three

national oil companies and two "NNPC Group trading

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