Most experts don’t believe overturning the export ban will significantly move oil prices, which remain at their lowest levels in years.
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Hoeven has repeatedly called for repealing the ban and worked persistently to get it included in year-end legislation. Ryan’s Republicans ought to worry about the political implications of forcing such a fight, because the last one did not do the party much good in the public eye.
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Yet now it seems that the Bureau will no longer need to issue secret exemptions to the ban, because the Obama administration and Congress are preparing to lift the ban entirely as part of a budget deal announced yesterday evening.
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Analysts point out that independent oil companies such as Continental Resources and ConocoPhillips have been lobbying the federal government to lift the ban on oil exports for a couple of years now, saying that the ability to freely export oil would minimize market distortions, stimulate the USA economy and improve national security.
In 2013, U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz raised the possibility with reporters that both the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Oil Export Ban needed a reexamination “in the context of what is now an energy world that is no longer like the 1970s”.
The immediate impact of the news has been to narrow the spread between West Texas Intermediate crude and more expensive Brent oil, the worldwide benchmark.
The lifting of the ban could be a boon for domestic oil producers.
Ironically, Louisiana is seeing a boom in the southwestern parishes because of the construction of natural gas export facilities. In that landscape, little oil is likely to be exported.
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall also stated in a news release that he was happy to see renewable energy tax provision for the next five years.
Though Republicans strongly favored lifting the ban, some GOP lawmakers have other problems with the package.
“There are concerns that we have about jobs, [that] jobs will leave the country because they’ve lifted the ban on crude oil”, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters.
North Dakota’s delegation echoed those comments.
Longson added that when US producers return to ramping up manufacturing, exports might grow to be extra useful. “Yet, growth has been hampered by a decades-old policy that forbids us from exporting oil to our allies while countries that fund terrorism have held a monopoly on the market”.
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She said the environmental damage from exporting oil would be offset by 10 times because of measures in the bill such as the renewable power tax credits, funding of a parks conservation fund paid for with oil revenues and the elimination of measures that would have dismantled Obama’s clean power rules on power plants. EnerCom is a multi-disciplined management consulting services firm that regularly intends to seek business, or now may be undertaking business, with companies covered on Oil & Gas 360®, and thereby seeks to receive compensation from these companies for its services. The provision would give the president the ability to impose restrictions on oil exports for special circumstances such as national security threats or emergencies.
