HGL’s and other products through the Panama Canal… EIA

The Energy Information Administration’s “This Week In Petroleum” focuses on movement of hydrocarbon gas liquids through the Panama Canal, here…

”In June 2016, the Panama Canal Authority, the body that operates the Panama Canal, opened a third set of locks that facilitated transit of larger ships, the first such expansion since the canal was completed in 1914. In the years since the canal was expanded, however, the only significant change in petroleum flows through the canal has been the increase of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL) from the U.S. Gulf Coast to destinations in Asia. Other petroleum flows through the canal including U.S. Gulf Coast exports of distillate and motor gasoline to destinations on the West Coast of Central and South America have changed little since the expansion.”