I keep hearing that the U.S. has not imported ANY Russian oil in the last several months.
If the U.S. imported 209,000 barrels of crude oil and 500,000 barrels of "other petroleum products" (gasoline, jet fuel etc.) per day from Russia in 2021...
...has that rate diminished at any time so far in the first 2 months of 2022?
These products from Russia are delivered mostly by large tanker ships. How many such ships carrying Russian oil products, have docked in U.S. ports since Jan. 1, 2022?
How many have docked since Feb. 22, 2022 (the start of Russian military invasion of Ukraine)?
Tanker ships can easily turn around in mid-ocean and go elsewhere. Or they can dock in U.S. ports but be refused clearance to offload their oil. Or, of course, they can be rescheduled from their ports of origin to go someplace else... or just be moored offshore in Europe to wait for a country that will accept them.
How many tanker ships have had the above happen to them, since Feb. 22, 2022?
Anyone know?
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From the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM):
https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/blog/o...ssia-explained
Oil and Petroleum Imports from Russia Explained
February 25, 2022
By: AFPM Communications
In 2021, the U.S. imported an average of 209,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and 500,000 bpd of other petroleum products from Russia. Although Russian crude accounts for only three percent of U.S. crude oil imports and about one percent of total crude oil processed by U.S. refineries—Russian crude oil imports are important to refineries on the West Coast and Gulf Coast. Read more on this topic from AFPM’s industry analysts in their recent assessment: “U.S. Imports of Crude Oil and Petroleum Products from Russia.”
Gasoline and diesel represent only a small part of Russian imports to the United States, largely going to the East Coast. The U.S. East Coast is reliant on foreign sources of refined product due to lack of local refining capacity and infrastructure to economically move products from refining centers along the USGC to markets along the eastern seaboard.
Increased imports of crude oil to the USGC region in 2021 were largely driven by disruptions to U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil production caused by Hurricane Ida and have since declined. And, since 2019, U.S. refineries have increased imports of unfinished heavy oils from Russia to help replace heavy sour crude from Venezuela that U.S. refineries can no longer import.
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