The boost to US crude exports has even revived conversations about a pipeline connecting Corpus Christi to the oil hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, which serves as the main conduit for shipping Canadian and Bakken Basin oil to fuel makers and exporters in the US. Port of Corpus Christi has been in talks this year about such a pipeline, Britton said, declining to name the companies involved. Phillips 66 and Plains All American Pipeline LP previously planned a pipeline on the route, but the project was halted amid a slow recovery in US oil output in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Corpus currently only exports barrels of oil produced in Texas from the Permian and Eagle Ford basins.






