The Oil And Gas Situation: A Time For Setting Records
December 10, 2018
They say numbers don't lie, and the last two weeks for the U.S. oil and gas industry have seen the announcements of some pretty amazing numbers. These are numbers that demonstrate exactly how productive and efficient the business has become, and numbers that must be put into some context to understand how extraordinary they really are.
So, as we move into mid-December 2018, let's give it a shot:
The U.S became a "net exporter" of petroleum liquids for the first time 75 years. - That's right, the week of November 30 through December 5 saw the United States of America actually export more crude oil and other oil-derived liquids than it imported from other countries. The key part of that sentence is "other oil-derived liquids," which include gasoline, diesel and other refined products. Rolling all of those products into the equation, the U.S. exported about 211,000 barrels per day more than it imported for the week, as reported by Bloomberg.
The U.S. did not become a net exporter of "crude oil," as some others in the energy news media mistakenly reported. As Robert Rapier reported at Forbes.com over the weekend, our country is still a sizable net importer of crude alone, an equation that will not be reversed anytime soon.
Regardless, the fact that the U.S....
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