Diversamente da quanto è ritenuto comunemente, gli Stati Uniti sono forti importatori di petrolio più che produttori, il 49,3% è importato, e il mercato di rifornimento è quello del Golfo Persico con quasi il 47%. Diminuisce il consumo di benzina rispetto a Maggio dell'anno passano, aumenta invece il consumo di gasolio-
Come riassume l'API American Petroleum Institute, (l' associazione nazionale che rappresenta tutti i segmenti del settore del petrolio e del gas naturale guidato dalla tecnologia americana.) nel suo specchietto mensile il tutto è ben evidente:
PETROLEUM FACTS AT A GLANCE – MAY 2017 release
1. Total petroleum products delivered to the domestic market in May 2017: 20,134,000 b/d
(May 2016: 19,202,000 b/d). [API]
2. U.S. petroleum imports (crude & products) in May 2017: 9,917,000 barrels per day (May
2016: 10,183,000 b/d). [API]
3. Total imports in May 2017 as a percentage of total domestic petroleum deliveries: 49.3
percent (May 2016: 53.0 percent). [API]
4. Persian Gulf petroleum imports (net) in March 2017 as a percentage of total imports:
46.7 percent (March 2016: 36.1 percent). [DOE]
5. Average price for a barrel of OPEC crude oil for May 2017: $49.20 per barrel (May 2016:
$43.21 per barrel). [OPEC]
6. Average U.S. refiner acquisition cost in April 2017 for a barrel of crude oil: $49.48 per
barrel (April 2016: $37.71 per barrel). [DOE]
7. U.S. crude oil production in May 2017: 9,336,000 b/d (of which 495,000 b/d was
Alaskan) (May 2016: 8,882,000 b/d). U.S. production of natural gas liquids in May 2017:
3,538,000 b/d (May 2016: 3,593,000 b/d). [API]
8. U.S. marketed natural gas production in March 2017: 76.8 billion cubic feet per day
(March 2016: 78.4 billion cf/d). [DOE]
9. U.S. deliveries from primary storage of motor gasoline in May 2017: 9,583,000 b/d (May
2016: 9,436,000 b/d). [API]
10. U.S. deliveries from primary storage of distillate fuel oil (home heating and diesel) in
May 2017: 4,031,000 b/d (May 2016: 3,745,000 b/d). [API]
11. Average active rotary drilling rigs in the U.S. in May 2017 was 893– third lowest May
count in 15 years, since 2002 (all‐time high of 4,521 announced November 1981; record
low of 409 announced May 2016). [Baker Hughes Inc., Houston]
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