MOSCOW- Russia's Surgutneftegaz has issued a spot tender to sell 100,000 tonnes of Urals crude loading from Primorsk in May, traders said on Thursday.

The producer is offering one cargo of the grade from Primorsk on May 8-9.

Urals oil loadings from its Baltic ports are set at 1.5 million tonnes for May 1-10, up from 1.2 million tonnes for April 1-10, the provisional schedule showed on Wednesday.

The tender closes on Friday at 1400 Moscow time (1200 GMT).

(Reporting by Gleb Gorodyankin, Olga Yagova;) ((Gleb.Gorodyankin@thomsonreuters.com; +7 495 775 12 42; Reuters Messaging: gleb.gorodyankin.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))