U.S. crude oil floods into Italy as Libyan supplies falter
July 20, 2018 at 14:54 PM EDT
Italy's imports of U.S. crude oil vaulted to a record in June after attacks by armed groups shuttered two major Libyan oil ports and cut off most deliveries from the OPEC country, a key supplier to Europe, according to Thomson Reuters trade flow data and shipping intelligence firm Kpler.