Hess Exports Bakken Crude To Europe; First Reported Overseas Shipment Of Bakken Crude; No New Permits; No Producing Wells Completed -- April 15, 2016

Updates

April 25, 2016: follow-up to the original post here; the oil was from near Tioga; ended up in the Netherlands where XOM has a refinery. 
 

Original Post

Reuters/Rigzone reports:

Hess Corp on Friday confirmed it sold Bakken crude for export out of the U.S. Gulf Coast to Europe, the first reported shipment of the light North Dakota oil since Congress lifted the ban on exporting crude last December.

Hess sold 175,000 barrels of Bakken crude, which loaded at St. James, Louisiana, in early April and is being transported to a European refinery, spokesman John Roper said in an emailed statement.

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In front of Willhoite's, checking out all the motorcycles -- 10:00 p.m. Friday night, Grapevine, TX, Main Street.