据道琼斯12月23日消息,得克萨斯州一家能源公司将装载首批美国原油出口海外市场。
企业产品合伙公司(EPP)周三表示,明年1月的第一周,该公司将在休斯敦航道的石油终端将60万桶在得州南部开采的轻质低硫原油装上一艘油轮。就在不到一周前,美国国会刚刚批准了一项新法案,取消了实行长达40年之久的美国石油出口禁令。
据EPP称,这船原油的购买方是荷兰石油贸易巨头维多集团。据一位知情人士透露,这批原油将横穿大西洋,运往维多公司子公司位于瑞士克雷谢的一家炼油厂。这家炼油厂主要向北欧地区供应柴油和其他燃料。
庞晓华摘译自道琼斯
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U.S. to Export Crude-Oil Cargo in Early January
By Alison Sider And Lynn Cook
A Texas energy company will load the first cargo of U.S. crude oil to be shipped overseas.
Enterprise Products Partners LP said Wednesday that during the first week of January it will load 600,000 barrels of light, sweet crude pumped in South Texas into a tanker at its oil terminal on the Houston Ship Channel. The announcement comes less than a week after Congress passed new legislation that lifts the 40-year-old ban on exporting U.S. oil.
Vitol Group, a Dutch oil-trading titan, is buying the crude oil, according to Enterprise. The oil will sail across the Atlantic Ocean to a Vitol subsidiary's refinery in Cressier, Switzerland, which supplies diesel and other fuels to Northern Europe, according to a person familiar with the matter. Vitol didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.