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US Starts Crude Oil Export Two Weeks After Lifting Ban
Delivery from ConocoPhillips and NuStar Energy ends 40-year trade halt
The tanker Theo T was loaded Thursday with light crude for ConocoPhillips Co. at NuStar Energy LP’s North Beach Terminal in the Port of Corpus Christi. Photo: Eddie Seal for The Wall Street Journal
The first oil tanker of freely traded U.S. crude departed Thursday afternoon from the Port
of Corpus Christi, about 160 miles north of the Texas border with Mexico.
ConocoPhillips Co. and NuStar Energy LP loaded the tanker with oil pumped from the Eagle Ford Shale of South Texas. The companies have skipped ahead of Enterprise Products Partners LP, which said last week that it expected to load the first oil export cargo in Houston during the first week of January.
President Barack Obama signed legislation lifting the long-standing ban on exporting U.S. oil less than two weeks ago. It was put into place during the mid-1970s in the wake of the Arab Oil Embargo, which caused fuel rationing and price spikes for American drivers.
Vitol Group, a Dutch oil-trading powerhouse, is buying the oil cargo, according to NuStar. Vitol also is buying the U.S. crude-oil cargo that will ship out of Houston during the first week of 2016. The company has a subsidiary that owns a refinery in Switzerland.
Source : Wall Street Journal
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