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The U.S. confirms its status as a petro-superpower
Axios ^ | November 14, 2019 | Ben Geman

Posted on 11/30/2019 6:41:37 PM PST by cba123

New data and projections confirm the emergence of the U.S. as a net exporter of crude oil and liquid petroleum products (gasoline, diesel and and more) combined.

Why it matters: The inflection point underscores the growth of the U.S. as a petro-superpower, although we still import millions of barrels of crude oil per day and production growth is slowing.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: oil; us
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The big picture: "If confirmed in survey-collected monthly data, it would be the first time the United States exported more petroleum than it imported since EIA records began in 1949," the agency said.
1 posted on 11/30/2019 6:41:38 PM PST by cba123
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.axios.com/united-states-net-exporter-petroleum-crude-oil-e5170002-6223-4a0d-b5bc-fdd207f3adde.html


2 posted on 11/30/2019 6:42:33 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: cba123

The Trump effect!


3 posted on 11/30/2019 6:43:27 PM PST by mumblypeg
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To: cba123

F U OPEC!!!


4 posted on 11/30/2019 6:44:05 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with islamic terrorists - they want to die for allah and we want to kill them.)
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Which means if we halted our exports, we could crush economies overnight. Are you listening China?


5 posted on 11/30/2019 6:44:41 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: cba123

The Smartest man in the World(Obama) said that could never happen


6 posted on 11/30/2019 6:45:21 PM PST by butlerweave
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The Smartest man in the World(Obama) said that could never happen

It blows me away that all the "Hubbard's Peak" and "Peak Oil" and "we're running out of oil" stories that we've been fed by the "smart people" for the last 35 or 40 years can just be pushed aside and forgotten. Oops. Never mind.

Now on to global warming and rising sea levels, the new reasons to end capitalism and freedom.

7 posted on 11/30/2019 6:49:13 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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The fools do not understand we have ti import heavy crude because the refineries here are not up to speed on the sweeter crude.. think Venezuela


8 posted on 11/30/2019 7:09:28 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: cba123

Oddly back in Bush I administration we destroyed the Soviet Union due to Saudis Arabia. We destroyed them via economics as their economy was based on oil and they were the greatest producer of oil at the time. The price of oil collapsed and the Soviet Union failed. They failed because the Saudi’s produced huge amounts of oil as Bush dictated.

Even more oddly, today the USA is the nation that determines the price of oil due to fracking. We are now an oil exporter and our production increases year by year. We are the number one producer of oil in the world and have potential resources to produce much more.

After the Soviet Union collapsed the Saudi’s realized the danger our new production via fracking and tried to do the same thing to us. They produced much oil in an effort to kill our fracking. It was marginally successful and fracking soon returned leaner and meaner and much more efficient just do to economics.

We won.


9 posted on 11/30/2019 7:41:44 PM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: Hojczyk

So US produces about 13 million bbl per day and imports about 7 mbbl/day to satisfy total consumption of 20 million bbl/day. Most of that 7 mbbl/day is to dilute our shale produced sweet crude with heavy crude to feed our domestic refineries.

Much of that heavy crude is from Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela (Saudi Arabia now with Maduro sanctioned).

Are we starting to convert any refineries to handle sweet crude only?


10 posted on 11/30/2019 7:45:32 PM PST by bakkentom
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To: mumblypeg

Now all we need to do is build more refineries.


11 posted on 11/30/2019 8:05:29 PM PST by tbw2
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We import about 1/3 of crude oil consumed in US. We net export petroleum products for the first time. That means we now produce enough to cover the 1/3 of crude imported.

Petroleum products are crude, refinery output, and maybe LNG exports? These liquid petroleum products are still mostly consumed in the US. In September we just became a net exporter, by a little and growing amount above what we consume.


12 posted on 11/30/2019 8:08:09 PM PST by bakkentom
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Sorry, I think we handed the keys to the world, to China.

Big mistake.


13 posted on 11/30/2019 8:37:53 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Hojczyk

I feel like you’re making an important point. What is wrong with our refineries?


14 posted on 11/30/2019 10:29:51 PM PST by Crucial
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Bill Clinton is a large part what happened to our refineries.

He used multiple levers to eliminate a large percentage of our refinement.


15 posted on 11/30/2019 11:08:12 PM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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More fracking, please. This is real winning. We need to stop giving any muslim states any money through oil sales.

JoMa


16 posted on 11/30/2019 11:28:42 PM PST by joma89
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"The fools do not understand we have ti import heavy crude because the refineries here are not up to speed on the sweeter crude.. think Venezuela"

There is plenty of heavy crude in California. And refineries can be "re-tuned" (actually "de-tuned") to handle the sweeter crude. Some fracked output almost requires no refining due to a higher proportion of light ends. IOW, industry can and will adjust to match the feedstock mix.

17 posted on 12/01/2019 12:33:29 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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"I feel like you’re making an important point. What is wrong with our refineries?"

Nothing. They evolved over time to handle the available crudes of the day. A similar evolution is happening now....it just takes time.

18 posted on 12/01/2019 12:36:44 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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"...the emergence of the U.S. as a net exporter of crude oil and liquid petroleum products..."

Sarah Palin nailed that one, too: "Drill, baby, drill"

19 posted on 12/01/2019 4:30:25 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again".)
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Why the appelation superpower to the concept of petroleum export?

Leading or largest would be less hyperbolic or exagerative


20 posted on 12/01/2019 4:40:31 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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