(Source: Reuters, June 18, 2019)
HOUSTON — Heavy crudes have poured into the United States this spring, offsetting the loss of Venezuelan oil and producing a mini-surplus, with Canadian heavy crude this month being exported from the U.S. Gulf Coast. Crude-by-rail loadings from Western Canada – much of it bound for U.S. refiners – rose to an average 231,000 barrels per day (bpd) in May, from 144,000 bpd in February, according to market intelligence firm Genscape.
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