[thackney]

the two largest suppliers of crude to the U.S. market are Canada and Mexico

No longer a true statement. We imported more oil from Saudi Arabia than Mexico for the last 6 and last 12 reported months.

The following is the last 6 month average:

5,417 MBPD from OPEC
4,675 MBPD from Non OPEC
2,147 MBPD from Persian Gulf
1,882 MBPD from Canada
1,465 MBPD from Saudi Arabia
1,386 MBPD from Mexico
1,173 MBPD from Venezuela

U.S. [Crude Oil] Imports by Country of Origin
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbblpd_m.htm

[xjcsa]

Fair enough; thanks for the data.

[Ditto]

You are confusing yourself with that table.

Go to the yearly table --- http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_impcus_a2_nus_epc0_im0_mbbl_a.htm --- and read the definition. You list the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia as separate, yet the Saudi exports to the US are included in the Persian Gulf numbers. Same thing with the OPEC numbers.

2006 was the last full year reported by EIA and here are the top 5 countries of origin in thousands of barrels.

Canada -- 637,854
Mexico -- 575,501
Saudi Arabia -- 519,236
Venezuala -- 417,000
Nigeria -- 378,760

From all countries, we imported 3,693,081 thousand barrels vs 3,404,894 in the year 2001 an increase of almost 300,000. But imports from the Persian Gulf region, have decreased over that same time frame from 972,479 in 2001 to 788,432 in 2006.