Some of the world’s biggest oil companies and traders are poised to export substantial amounts of crude from the US for the first time in decades, as booming output there promises to reshape global energy markets.

Royal Dutch Shell, BP and Vitol, the world’s largest independent oil trading house, are among the six companies known to have applied to the US government for export licences, the Financial Times has learnt. ....

Oil groups set to export US crude
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