US ethane curbs will make contracting to China harder, Energy Transfer says

The restrictions were rescinded last month, but they disrupted flows of ethane and caused significant delays to shipments.

"That, you know, put a little bit of a black eye on us, on our industry, on our country...," Marshall McCrea, co-CEO of Energy Transfer, said in a post-earnings conference call.

The company is one of the top US exporters of ethane, a natural gas liquid.