US refineries are, in general, optimized for heavy oil. Heavy oil sources for the US:
- Mideast (Saudi Arabia, Iraq)
- Venezuela
- Canada
As Venezuela implodes and questions arise over reliability of Venezuelan crude oil, it may be interesting to follow
Canadian crude oil imports (into the US).
Over 125 million bbls/month:
- prior to 2015: never? the jump post-2014 has been striking
- 2015: one month (December)
- 2016: two months (bookends)
- 2017: three out of the first five months
The Keystone XL? Not critical but it would be nice.
This might take a second or two to re-fresh:
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