Understand that US refineries cannot process the US light or West Texas Crude. The refineries were built for heavy crude from the ME. We still need that oil, until such time as new light crude refineries are built ... somewhere in the US. Problem is no one wants a refinery built near them.
“The (US)refineries were built for heavy crude from the ME”
Saudi crude is very light.
Our refineries for heavy crude are more for the Venezuelan product.