A cargo of 460,000 barrels of Bayou Choctaw Sweet crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was delivered to California refineries for the first time. The shipment was necessitated by reduced Middle Eastern crude supplies due to the Iran war, leading California to rely more on imports. Chevron facilitated the transfer using a Jones Act waiver to transport the crude from the Gulf Coast to the West Coast.
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