US Crude Oil Imports -- October 11, 2019

Let's take another look at the EIA weekly petroleum report ending October 4, 2019 (the most recent one) and take a look at imports. Specifically, let's take a look at US imports in million bopd.

Link here. From the EIA weekly petroleum report for the most recent data available --

• So, most recent data, US imports averaged about 6.2 million bopd.

Historical US crude oil imports.

• July, 2019: 296,072/31 = 9.6 million bopd
• June, 2019: 277,155 / 30 = 9.2 million bopd
• February, 2019: 241,591 / 28 = 8.6 million bopd 
• last October, 2018: 293,506 / /31 = 9.5 million bopd

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