U.S. continues to import less while exporting more Total net energy imports to the United States fell to 7.3 quadrillion BTUs (quads) in 2017, a 35% decrease from 2016 and the lowest level since 1982, when both gross imports and gross exports were much lower, the EIA said today in a new report. Gross energy imports have been generally decreasing
U.S. crude oil exports grew to an average of 1.1 MMBOPD in 2017, the EIA said, which is the second full year since restrictions on crude oil exports were removed. Crude oil exports in 2017 were nearly double the level of exports in 2016. Increased U.S. crude oil exports were supported by increasing U.S. crude oil production and expanded infrastructure, the
Venezuela’s citizens are left holding a bag, one that is saddled with $60 billion dollars worth of debt. Citizens of Venezuela have been buying into bonds due to government policies of subsidizing the purchase of foreign debt by individual investors, Reuters reported in December 2017. Big businesses in the country have also poured money into the bonds, hoping to capitalize
In the past three years, the U.S. has exported more energy products to Mexico than it imports. That’s a reversal from just a few years ago. Historically, energy trading between Mexico and the U.S. was characterized by Mexican sales of crude oil to the U.S. and American sales of refined petroleum products to Mexico. Through 2014, the EIA said, Mexico’s
Recent U.S. legislation has directed the sale of more than 100 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in government fiscal years 2022 through 2027. Based on legislated sales established in multiple acts of Congress, the SPR could decline by about 40% in the coming decade while still meeting requirements for petroleum import coverage, the EIA said.
In 2017 China surpassed South Korea to become the world’s second-largest importer of LNG, according to data from IHS Markit and official Chinese government statistics, the EIA said. Driven by government policies designed to reduce air pollution, LNG imports increased by 1.6 Bcf/d in 2017, with monthly imports reaching 7.8 Bcf/d in December 2017. China has been striving to transition
The United States will become a net energy exporter in 2022, according to the newly released Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) Reference case from the EIA. The cause? EIA says changes in the petroleum and natural gas market are driving potential exports upward. The transition from net energy importer to net energy exporter occurs even earlier in some sensitivity cases
The Nord Stream Pipeline delivered 51 billion cubic meters (Bcm) of natural gas to consumers in the European Union in 2017. This means that the pipeline system operated at 93% of its annual design capacity of 55 Bcm. This is the highest utilization since the start of operation of the Nord Stream Pipeline System, the company said in a statement.
Royal Dutch Shell plc (ticker: RDS.A) and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. have signed an LNG contract that secures Kuwait’s domestic energy needs for the next 15 years. A private source told Bloomberg that the contract will cover 2-3 million metric tons of LNG a year, all while undercutting Brent benchmark prices by 11%. “The big issue for Kuwait is they burn
China on a tear to expand domestic gas output and diversify its natural gas imports China’s quest for natural gas “China supports domestic enterprises to increase natural gas output and at the same time to diversify imports of the resource,” said spokesperson Gao Feng at a regular press conference, Hellenic Shipping News reported. China’s natural gas import is expected to
Widening spread incentivizes marketers to export abroad: Fed U.S. crude oil exports went from 1.29 MMBOPD in Sept. to 1.78 MMBOPD in Oct., an all-time high according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The crude oil export ban was lifted in Dec. 2015 and infrastructure was built or modified to help exports. One major construction project was the Ingleside
U.S. responsible for 40% of the world’s new gas production by 2022: IEA A report by the EIA indicated that coal exports—for both steam coal, used for power generation, and metallurgical coal, used for refining steel—have increased by 58% from Q1 of 2016 to Q1 of 2017. The majority of the increase was in steam coal, which grew by 6
