Crude oil exports out of the U.S. Gulf Coast (USGC) skyrocketed 45% for the week of September 6 – 12, averaging 4.3 MMb/d (far right of chart below), soaring above the four-week moving average and the 2025 year-to-date (YTD) average. This was the largest weekly gain for export volumes since January, rebounding from the short-lived plummet below 3 MMb/d seen the week prior. Incremental demand was seen from Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. As discussed in our Crude Voyager Report, Corpus Christi loadings drove the bulk of this growth, with volumes up 82% week-on-week and eighteen vessels loaded across the region.
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One Week - A Record Seven Days for Gulf Coast Crude Exports, and a Lot More
The level of activity at crude oil export terminals from Corpus Christi to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) is nothing short of extraordinary — a record 4.8 MMb/d was loaded the week ended August 25, according to RBN’s Crude Voyager report, and Houston-area terminals loaded an all-time high of 1.4 MMb/d. But there’s a lot more to the crude exports story. When you live this stuff day-in, day-out, you see subtle changes that often extend into trends and, if you’re lucky, you sometimes get signals that things you’d been predicting are actually happening. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss highlights from the latest Crude Voyager and what the weekly report’s data and analysis reveal about the global oil market.
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U.S. Crude Oil Exports Slide, Mixed Short-Term Global Demand Signals
U.S. crude oil loadings dropped to 3.6 MMb/d last week, a decrease of 0.8 MMb/d from the previous week.
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Crude Oil Exports Surge To Match All-Time Highs
Crude oil exports out of the Gulf surged above 5 MMb/d last week.
