It has been two years since I posted the Top 10 oil exporters to the U.S., so I thought I would update that list. In 2007, the U.S. imported just over 10 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil, with our top three suppliers being Canada (1.90 million bpd), ...

Forbes magazine is making claims that the U.S. is exporting oil to other countries:America's Oil Export Problem (Yes, Export)The U.S. could cut oil imports by nearly 15% tomorrow without using less gasoline, invading a foreign country or driving up prices at the pump. How? By ...

Tis the season for energy plans. Coming up on the elections, everyone has to have a plan - and I was just e-mailed a copy of Montana Senator John Tester's plan. There are some good components, but it is also rich with irony.A common-sense energy plan for ...

Jonathan Callahan, a Ph.D. chemist who spent 12 years working for NOAA, has created a very useful databrowser for exploring the supply/demand situation in various countries around the world. Based on BP's 2007 Statistical Review, it provides a quick and easy way to see the trends for ...

I kept expecting a pull-back in prices at $90/bbl, then $100, then just watched as prices kept climbing to today's level of $118. While I won't be surprised if we do see a short-term correction, in the longer-term I suspect we will be going much higher. Why? Here is part ...

Following the theme of the previous post on where we get our gasoline imports, below is the list of our Top 10 sources of oil imports for 2007.For 2007, our Top 10 importers of crude oil into the U.S. in million barrels were:1. Canada 680.533 million ...

I have been thinking a lot lately about the impact of $100+ oil prices on the world economy. Like many others, I am trying to work out the probable implications - for the overall economy, for the U.S. economy, for the energy sector, for my personal finances, and for the ...

Raymond J. Learsy, author of Over a Barrel,is an idiot. How he managed to write a book will always be a mystery to me. Every time I read ...

Some of you may know that I have written some criticisms over the use of a technique called Hubbert Linearization to predict Peak Oil. I maintain that it is essentially useless for trying to predict an oil production peak. I have attempted to validate the model for a number of ...

Note: This post will be going up at The Oil Drum in the morning. For viewers of this blog, you get to see it first. This is my response to geologist Jeffrey Brown’s (alias westexas) post on whether world oil export numbers signal that world oil production has ...