While the focus on the Delaware City Refinery has been on the army of railroad tank car shipments of crude oil coming in from North Dakota and perhaps Canada, the parent company is quietly using a new supply route.
Reuters reports that PBF Energy is now using lightering of supertankers in international waters off the Gulf Coast, with the smaller vessels heading to its refineries in Delaware City and Paulsboro, N.J.
The crude oil is from Saudi Arabia, which has generous supplies of crude and the news service says the process is cheaper than sending crude oil via pipeline to Egypt, where it is then transported across the Atlantic.
Lightering is also used off the Delaware Coast, but a law on the books requires that ships heading into inland waters have to be U.S.-built or flagged vessels.
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Exclusive: U.S. refiner PBF switches up Saudi crude routes | Reuters.
