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2. Wonder how much Big Oil Investors are sticking in their pocket. And the Chinese own and are
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 05:32 PM
Aug 2015

Last edited Sat Aug 29, 2015, 08:09 AM - Edit history (1)

building the processing plants along the coast to do the exports of crude. Refined products and condensates can be exported. In the 1970s, the US banned exports because of the 70s Oil Crisis. They want to mix Canadian tar sand oil with condensates. That is one reason that they want the XL Keystone pipeline.

Editing to Add: Almost Natural Gasoline:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-gas_condensate

Natural-gas condensate is a low-density mixture of hydrocarbon liquids that are present as gaseous components in the raw natural gas produced from many natural gas fields. It condenses out of the raw gas if the temperature is reduced to below the hydrocarbon dew point temperature of the raw gas.

The natural gas condensate is also referred to as simply condensate, or gas condensate, or sometimes natural gasoline because it contains hydrocarbons within the gasoline boiling range. Raw natural gas may come from any one of three types of gas wells:[1][2]
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