Trump Administration Approves Texas Deepwater Oil Export Project

The Trump administration has approved a Texas port capable of shipping 1 million barrels of oil a day proposed by Sentinel Midstream LLC.

The project, first proposed in 2019 and known as the Texas GulfLink Deepwater Port, had been awaiting a final authorization from the Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration.

“That was held up for five years, and it was stonewalled,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday. “Bureaucrats got in the way, and now we are moving forward with that.”

Duffy cast the port as important to “making sure we can move energy in and out of the country.”

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