US crude exports

By Catherine Ngai (Reuters) A rare opening of an export window for crude moving from the U.S. Gulf to Western Europe has caused a flurry of interest among oil

By Henning Gloystein (Reuters) Long a shipping registry but best known for diving, lagoons and the island that gave the world the name for the bikini swimsuit,

By Liz Hampton HOUSTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – British oil company BP Plc has loaded a cargo of Alaskan North Slope (ANS) crude for export, according to two

By Florence Tan SINGAPORE, July 22 (Reuters) – Unipec, the trading arm of top Asian refiner Sinopec, has bought two U.S. crude cargoes, including a rare

By Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — A cargo of Alaska North Slope crude is scheduled to load next week aboard a foreign-flagged tanker for the first time in

HOUSTON, April 14 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil is shipping a cargo of crude produced from its deepwater Julia field in the Gulf of Mexico to its refinery in

By Joe Carroll and Harry R. Weber (Bloomberg) — The sea stretched toward the horizon last New Year’s Eve as the Theo T, a red-and-white tug at her

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Liz Hampton SINGAPORE/HOUSTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Oil traders in Asia are running the numbers on importing Alaskan crude,

By Joe Carroll and Naureen S. Malik (Bloomberg) — The worst fears of OPEC and Asian gas exporters are about to come true. U.S. shale drillers who pushed

HOUSTON, Dec 30 (Reuters) – The world’s largest oil trader Vitol SA has secured a second cargo of U.S.-produced crude for export, just weeks after

By Valerie Volcovici and Catherine Ngai Dec 23 (Reuters) – U.S. energy group Enterprise and oil trader Vitol raced to exploit the end of a 40-year ban on

By Dan Murtaugh and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — It took years to lift a ban on most U.S. oil exports. It took a week for the first shipment to

By Debjit Chakraborty, Yuji Okada and Serene Cheong (Bloomberg) — In the world’s biggest oil market, buyers have better options than U.S. crude. As the

With the stroke of a pen, President Barack Obama on Friday ended 40 years of U.S. crude oil export limits by signing off on a repeal passed by Congress earlier

By Billy House and Erik Wasson (Bloomberg) — Congress passed a $1.1 trillion spending measure that averts a U.S. government shutdown and ends a 40-

By Joe Carroll (Bloomberg) — U.S. shale drillers will soon be able to sell their oil all over the world. Too bad no one needs it right now. A

By John Kemp LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Congressional leaders have reached a deal to lift the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. crude in a symbolically

By Brian Wingfield and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is poised to reverse an energy policy that has helped define its relations with the

  By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) – A bill to repeal the U.S. oil export ban passed the House of Representatives on Friday, but faces

  The United States Congress signaled last week its firm intention to approve major free trade deals with Asia and Europe. But the global trade