The U.S. Energy Information Administration is “quite prepared” to review how American exports of crude oil would affect global markets as domestic production is expected to reach about 10 million barrels a day by 2017, agency Administrator Adam Sieminski said. Sieminski said a review should consider how crude exports would affect U.S. refining operations and foreign sales of other petroleum products. “I think we can address each one of these,” he said today at the IHS CERAWeek energy conference in Houston. The goal would be to “create building blocks” for policy makers to make sense of the issues involved, Sieminski said. As to whether the U.S. should export crude oil, Sieminski said “that’s a policy question” and not one he should answer. Sieminski’s comments came in response to a request yesterday from Senator Lisa Murkowski , an Alaska Republican and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and […]