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March 12, 2018
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Jones Act Requirements for Recent SPR Sale
On March 8, 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a sale of seven million barrels of sweet crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Offers are due by a specified time on March 21.
September 3, 2015
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U.S. Crude Oil Exports Get a Boost
Although there have been numerous recent studies on the potential economic impact of U.S. crude oil exports, it was not until recently that the U.S. Government issued its own study directly on those effects. On September 1, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) issued “Effects of Removing Restrictions on U.S. Crude Oil Exports,” which concluded (with a number of caveats and assumptions) that removal of remaining U.S. crude oil export restrictions would either leave U.S. gasoline prices unchanged or slightly reduced.
April 3, 2015
|1 min read
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