Where USA buys oil

[Rob_V]

I seem to remember reciently (tho I can’t find it) a thread that mentioned where the US buys most of it’s oil. I remember it because I was surprised that the statement was made that we buy something like 80% of our oil from Canada, and most of the rest from Venzuala (pardon my speling).

Can anyone confirm or deny this? If it is NOT true, can anyone tell me what the percentages are and from what sources?

[Grey]

Selected portion of link follows

In 2000, about 36 percent of total U.S. net energy imports came from Canada (27 percent) and Mexico (9 percent).

Canada provided almost all United States net natural gas imports in 2000. These imports accounted for about 15 percent of U.S. gas consumption in 2000.

U.S. net oil imports from Canada and Mexico accounted for about 26 percent of U.S. net oil imports, and about 15 percent of total U.S. oil consumption in 2000.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/northamerica/engsupp.htm

[Barbarian]

This question pops up in today’s Globe and Mail, where a columnist gets all Socratic and asks which are the top five oil-producing nations that deal with the US.

The relevant section:

The five are Canada, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Nigeria, in that order. Together, they accounted for nearly 60 per cent of U.S. petroleum imports in 2002.

In fact, of the top 20 foreign suppliers of petroleum products to the United States last year, only four – Britain, Angola, Colombia and Kuwait – are listed by the White House as members of the pro-war “coalition.” They accounted for 12.5 per cent of imports.

These are useful figures to keep in mind, since the United States relies on imports for slightly more than half its oil and gas consumption.

The article does not list its source material, though.

[Casey1505]

Link Provided by lmntcrnstn

[Rob_V]

Thank you, folks!

[handy]

That link only shows the top ten countries & Iraq isn’t even on it. Iran is though.

Also, search the net for the international Oil Pool, from where lots of countries get their oil.

[Casey1505]

My link? The one I provided does indeed only list the top 10, but it includes Iraq at #6.

[BaldTaco]

I read something recently that put US imports from Saudi Arabia at about 9%, and Iraq at about 3%.

[Yossarian]

Every thing you want to know about oil production you can find at:

API

For instance, to address the OP (linked from api.org):

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

[Barbarian]

Okay, I wrote to the columnist to find out where he got his figures.

For the US oil supply figures go to
www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/usfth/aggregate/h02t33.html.

General trade data can be found through http://dataweb.usitc.gov or
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca.