By Liz Hampton Sept 13 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell on Monday began evacuating staff from a U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil platform, and other energy companies began preparing for...

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — Crude exports from Louisiana’s offshore supertanker port tumbled to zero as Asian buyers limited purchases to manage high inventories that threaten to overwhelm storage facilities. The...

By Swati Verma Feb 16 (Reuters) – A deep freeze continued to wreak havoc on the U.S. energy sector, bringing operations to a halt at the Houston Ship channel, while...

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) American oil exports from Louisiana’s offshore supertanker port jumped to a record in January as Asian buyers are stocking up U.S. crude for a post-pandemic rebound...

By Sheela Tobben and Dave Merrill (Bloomberg) — Five years ago on New Year’s Eve, the Theo T left the Texas Gulf Coast with the first U.S. shale crude shipment overseas. The...

by Bozorgmehr Sharafedin (Reuters) – Oil prices steadied on Monday as news that China planned to ship large volumes of U.S. crude in August and September countered rising tensions between the...

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) –A cluster of ships with American oil has been heading to a small terminal in southern Ireland as buyers search for places to store crude in...

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) –Soaring oil-tanker costs are drying up activity in the U.S. export market as sellers are slow to lower offers and buyers are skittish, according to market...

HOUSTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) – China’s threat on Friday to slap a 5% tariff on U.S. oil imports could further soften demand for physical crude at hubs along the U.S....

By Collin Eaton HOUSTON, June 19 (Reuters) – U.S. oil refiner Phillips 66 is proposing a deepwater crude export terminal off the U.S. Gulf Coast, challenging at least eight other...

By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters) – Enterprise Products Partners LP said on Wednesday volumes at its crude marine terminals jumped to a record of nearly 900,000...

By Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — It seems Asia’s biggest oil buyer can’t stay away from crude pumped in the world’s fastest-growing supplier for long. A supertanker laden with U.S. oil...

HOUSTON, March 28 (Reuters) – A proposed $1 billion deepwater oil-export project moved ahead on Thursday with U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group agreeing to a 50-year lease on land...

By Javier Blas (Bloomberg) –Oil trader Paul Vega is at the vanguard of shale’s next revolution. Driving his pick-up truck through the heartland of the Permian basin — the vast...

By Alex Longley and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — For a glimpse into what the global oil price might look like one day, a good place to look is the Dutch port of...

By Devika Krishna Kumar and Florence Tan NEW YORK/HOUSTON, March 11 (Reuters) – Occidental Petroleum Corp has emerged as one of the biggest exporters of U.S. shale oil, rivaling large trading...

HOUSTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Sentinel Midstream on Monday became the latest contender in the race to build a crude export terminal off the U.S. Gulf Coast, announcing plans to...

HOUSTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Magellan Midstream Partners LP has begun talks with companies developing crude transportation assets in Freeport, Texas, as it considers building a U.S. crude export terminal...

By Collin Eaton CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Booming U.S. oil exports have set off a scramble to build Gulf Coast ports to handle more than 3 million barrels...

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port is pushing out the most crude it’s shipped in any one month since the terminal began supertanker exports in February. As the...