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To: familyop
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2014/06/24/feds-open-door-to-condensate-exports/

The move, which came in private classification orders issued by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, effectively confirms that hydrocarbon known as condensate qualifies as a petroleum product once it has been processed in a distillation tower

...The decision falls far short of what oil producers and some of their allies in Congress have been urging — including a wholesale repeal of the trade limits on crude. But it could provide a new avenue for the ultra-light condensate that flows along with crude out of many Texas wells tapping the Eagle Ford Shale and effectively delay a broader, deeper debate about broader crude exports.

Because the classification ruling is limited to condensate that has been run through a distillation tower, it does not apply more broadly to unprocessed condensate that has just flowed out of oil and gas wells.

Distillation involves using heat and condensation to separate hydrocarbons into their different streams and generally goes beyond simply stabilizing condensate for pipeline transport by boiling off butane and other light, volatile gases.

17 posted on 06/26/2014 12:17:55 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
"...The decision falls far short of what oil producers and some of their allies in Congress have been urging — including a wholesale repeal of the trade limits on crude."

I agree with the present relaxation on exports for the purpose of helping Europe, but a repeal of all of the trade limits would be an extremely dangerous act. The U.S.A. needs more oil security than that for defense.

For folks who are reading this and have no instruction in overall warfare necessities, extreme quantities of oil are necessary for mechanized and air pursuits necessary for winning a war (expecially a world war). And the world now is getting to be much more dangerous than it was during the Cold War. Reserves, no matter how large, are not nearly enough.


22 posted on 06/26/2014 12:46:33 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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