New Delhi: India has exported its first-ever jet fuel cargo to the U.S. West Coast for energy major Chevron , according to trade sources and shipping data, seizing upon a rare arbitrage opportunity to fill supply shortfalls in Los Angeles.

US West Coast jet fuel production has been curtailed since October, after a fire at Chevron’s 285,000 barrel-per-day El Segundo refinery in southern California forced the company to take multiple units offline.

About 60,000 metric tons (472,800 barrels) of the aviation fuel was loaded on Panamax tanker Hafnia Kallang between October 28 and 29 from the Jamnagar port, where Reliance Industries run a refinery, according to data from Kpler, LSEG and four trade sources.

Castleton Commodities chartered the ship, which is expected to arrive in Los Angeles

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