FILE PHOTO: A logo of Russian state oil firm Rosneft is seen at its office in Moscow, October 18, 2012. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Russian oil firm Rosneft has struck deals with several buyers for almost its entire quota of Venezuelan crude for the remainder of the year, traders told Reuters on Wednesday, the first time it has conducted such a large sale of the OPEC member’s oil.

Rosneft, which is taking a growing volume of Venezuelan crude and products while extending credits to President Nicolas Maduro’s government, previously had resold the barrels in the United States and Asia through trading firms, according to PDVSA’s [PDVSA.UL] internal documents.

The new sales mechanism is similar to the one used by Andes Petroleum, a China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and SinopecInformation technology solutions to support translational research on inherited cardiomyopathies.
The INHERITANCE project, funded by the European Commission, is aimed at studying genetic or inherited Dilated cardiomyopathies (DCM) and at understanding the impact and management of the condition within families that suffer from heart conditions that are caused by DCMs. The project is supported by a number of advanced biomedical informatics tools, including data warehousing, automated literature search and decision support. The paper describes the design of these tools and the current status of implementation.