Russian oil major Lukoil has emerged as one of the first companies to buy Canadian crude re-exported from a U.S. port, shipping one cargo last month to its refinery in Augusta, Italy, data showed on Tuesday. A 445,000-barrel cargo of Canadian Sour grade loaded on the Sifnos, a Suezmax crude tanker, in Houston and departed on July 6, according to PIERS oil export trade flows data available via Thomson Reuters' Eikon. It discharged at the 320,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) ISAB refinery in Augusta, Italy, on the island of Sicily, on Aug. Lukoil, the second-biggest oil producer in Russia, took a stake in the Sicilian refinery in 2008 and gradually increased its stake to full ownership in December 2013. The U.S.