Russian Energy Exports to U.S. Set 8-Year Record in October
Russia’s energy exports to the United States have reached an eight-year high in October 2019, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data cited by the RBC news website Thursday.
Russia exported 20.9 million barrels of crude oil and petroleum products to the U.S. in October 2019, the highest one-month total since November 2011. Russia also surpassed Mexico as the second-largest energy supplier to the U.S. in October 2019, behind Canada.
The U.S. imported 166.37 million barrels of Russian crude oil and petroleum products in January-November 2019, the latest available data says. Mexico exported 217.5 million barrels to the U.S. in January-November 2019.
Russian Federal Customs Service data cited by RBC estimated the country’s January-November exports of crude oil and oil products to the U.S. at $5.76 million.
In the absence of December data, RBC reported that state-owned oil company Rosneft delivered 3.5 million barrels of oil products to the U.S. that month. At least seven other Russian firms delivered energy products to the U.S. in December, RBC cited the Caracas Capital investment bank as saying.
Russia ramped up its oil and petroleum sales to the U.S. after Washington imposed sanctions on Venezuela last year, causing a sharp drop in exports of the country’s key source of revenue.
(c) The Moscow Times
So this is how the US sanctions Russia, by importing record amounts of oil and gas? Why would the biggest oil producing country in the world import Russian oil?
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To destroy people’s automobiles?
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Here is an excerpt from another article.
“Russia is threatened with sanctions over Venezuela
U.S. President’s national security advisor Robert O’Brien also did not rule out that Washington may take action against the Russian company Rosneft, RIA Novosti reported.
According to him, if Russian companies do not understand that the support of the official leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, “is not just a business decision, but it’s immoral, given what it brings to the people of Venezuela,” the U.S. may impose sanctions “in the near future”.
Earlier, Washington stated that Rosneft was helping the Latin American country to sell oil in order to financially support the regime.”
Sounds a bit two faced to me. Sanction Rosneft for helping Venezuela sell oil, but import oil from Rosneft into the US.
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I’m not sure the federal government decides who imports oil and where from.
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I’m sure someone in the WH could stop it.
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But the deal was ‘you make me president, we’ll buy your oil’. Can’t change the deal no more. 😉
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Russia had to sell that contaminated oil somewhere. LMAO
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Good for the economy, since soon most people will need a new car. LMFAO!
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Japanese or German? LMAO
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I meant real cars. LMAO!
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My Russian language is terrible but according to the article embedded in the link above, the chart does not say energy, or oil and gas….it says oil and oil products. I think we have some ruSSki propaganda going on here. Nevertheless, there should be other places to get oil products.
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I’m sure the US can get oil products from anywhere except Muscovy. They shouldn’t import anything from the mafia state.
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We get 2 percent of our total oil demand supplied by Russia.
And only 10-15% of the oil that we get from Russia is crude oil, with petroleum products accounting for the rest.
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