On the other side is Consumers and Refiners United for Domestic Energy, which spent $180,000 on lobbying through the first half of this year to retain the ban. It includes PBF and Delta Air Lines Inc. unit Monroe Energy LLC. Exact amounts being spent on the export ban aren’t available because registrants disclose total expenditures on all issues in a single form. ConocoPhillips has the most extensive effort on the ban, according to the filings. It’s hired three firms to represent it, in addition to five lobbyists on its own staff. Other big oil producers, including Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Marathon Oil Corp., support ending the export limits. All three have their own lobbying teams as well as outside firms to help on the issue. While there is some congressional support for lifting the restrictions, there probably isn’t enough backing to end them before the 2016 elections, […]