ABU DHABI- The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company aims to make its Murban futures contract a replacement for Brent, as the North Sea benchmark volumes are declining, the company's head of trading, Philippe Khoury, told a conference on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi.

“We still have to demonstrate that over time the community can trust the crude as a benchmark,“ he said, adding that Murban would be "giving the industry a replacement for Brent."

(Reporting by Rania El Gamal; writing by Maher Chmaytelli) ((maher.chmaytelli@thomsonreuters.com;))