Husky Energy Inc. said Wednesday it shipped Canada’s first-ever batch of oil to India as it and other Canadian producers seek to boost crude exports to more markets outside of the U.S. Calgary-based Husky exported one million barrels of crude to state-owned Indian Oil Corp. from its White Rose offshore oil field in eastern Canada late last year, a move the company described as a test run and a precursor to increased exports to refiners in India. “The sale to India did open up a potentially very large market for us,” CEO Asim Ghosh said in a conference call. Husky, which is majority owned by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, is one of Canada’s largest oil producers and has upstream operations off the coast of Labrador and Newfoundland and also in the oil sands of Alberta in Western Canada. The company produced 224,000 barrels a […]