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Heavy Louisiana Sweet Drops as Keystone Starts Texas DeliveriesBloomberg -- Heavy Louisiana Sweet and other Gulf Coast crudes weakened the most in a month against West Texas Intermediate after the southern leg of TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone XL pipeline began deliveries to Texas from Cushing, Oklahoma.

The line is now transporting 288,000 barrels a day of U.S. light, sweet oil to Nederland, Texas, adding to crude supplies in PADD 3, the Gulf Coast region. Those stocks climbed last week by 870,000 barrels to 161.9 million, the first increase since Nov. 22, a government report showed.

“Increased pipeline capacity from Cushing to the Gulf, coupled with a heavier-than-normal spring turnaround season, should help to rebuild inventories in the region over the near term,” Mike Tran, a New York-based oil analyst at CIBC World Markets Corp., said in a report...

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