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EIA: Top 5 US crude oil suppliers account for 72% of total crude imports; highest proportion since 1997

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Crude oil imports from the top five foreign suppliers to the United States—which in 2012 were Canada, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Iraq, in that order—accounted for almost 72% of total US net crude oil imports, the highest proportion since 1997, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Eni report: global oil reserves and oil production up in 2018 due to US

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The tight oil production phenomenon continued to increase the share of sweet light crudes, which rose above 20% worldwide. WTI, the US light crude, covers 60% of global growth. The surplus in the Middle East is slightly up, due to the year-end increases of big producers (Saudi Arabia, Iraq and U.A.E.).

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Platts Survey: OPEC pumps 31.28M barrels of crude per day in June; highest since Aug 2012

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million barrels per day (b/d) in June, up 170,000 b/d from May and the fourth consecutive monthly increase since February, as Saudi Arabia and Iraq pushed out more oil, a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts showed Monday. As well as Basrah Light, Iraq is now exporting the newly-introduced Basrah Heavy crude oil.

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Average Carbon Intensity of crude to California refineries in 2012 down very slightly from 2010 baseline

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The greatest volume of crude in 2012 came from Alaska (75,026,823 barrels, with a carbon intensity of 12.81), followed by 57,829,491 barrels of Basra Light from Iraq (CI 12.08) and 49,600,000 barrels from Saudi Arabia (Arab Light, with a CI of 6.75). Ecuador’s Oriente was in fourth place with 34,975,946 barrels and a CI of 9.34.

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LiquidPiston receives $8.2M award to integrate XTS-210 heavy-fueled rotary engine into compact 10 kW genset for US Army

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The authors demonstrated the methodology based on historical data from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. For Iraq, the fuel casualty factor was 0.026. million award from DEVCOM C5ISR Center for the development of a Light Weight High Efficiency Generators.

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Opinion: How Much Longer Can OPEC Hold Out?

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However, OPEC has been in the line of fire from the western world in light of its stance of not reducing the production levels of its member nations (excluding Iran). Iraq’s Issues. After Saudi Arabia, Iraq is the biggest crude oil producer in OPEC. Source: opec.org).

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Opinion: Stop Blaming OPEC For Low Prices

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After all, OPEC has only slightly increased output from 2014, and much of it came from Iraq, which has been trying to increase production at all costs, regardless of OPEC decisions. Iraq is not subject to the quota restrictions, and so it is pulling out all the stops to increase output. million barrels per day (mb/d) to 9.6