By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oil producers considering swapping U.S. light crude abroad for the heavier imported oil needed by refiners to work around a decades-old ban on exporting domestic crude may find the strategy harder to execute than it looks on paper. As U.S. production of light crude oil continues to boom, some companies and lawmakers are calling for the United States to reform its decades-old ban on most U.S. crude oil exports - a policy that followed the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s. Swaps would be another way to test the ban's limits. In theory it should take just weeks for Washington to allow oil producers to execute a deal, since these swaps are allowed by law.
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