US Petroleum Exports at All-Time High as Overseas Crises Deepen

The Marathon Petroleum Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas.

Photographer: Mark Felix/Bloomberg
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The US shipped out the most crude and refined-oil products in three decades as energy-starved economies increasingly turn to American supplies to stave off shortages.

More than 11 million barrels of crude and products such as diesel fuel left US ports on a daily basis last week for overseas markets, government data showed on Wednesday. That was the most in data going back to February 1991.