re: The US remains a net IMPORTER of CRUDE OIL

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Less than 30% of US refineries are really set up to refine our own oil.

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11 Refineries on the Gulf Coast are configured for heavy or very heavy crude oil, and this is not for the entire refinery, usually one of the crude units. The rest are for intermediate or light crude oil. Much of what is being called crude oil is technically condensate. It was legally changed to crude oil by the same piece of legislation to build the Alaskan Pipeline when exports of crude oil were banned except from Alaska and California to include condensate in the ban.

The problem with much of the actual condensate is that it is gassier than a pot of beans. Thus, the barrel of "oil" is a lot of gasses entrained in a liquid.

Over 3,000 BPD of "crude oil" is technically condensate.

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being to expensive?

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Forget building refineries, how long do you think it takes to even start building them?

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There are several which have been proposed, all cookie cutter 50,000 BPD integrated built in modules for the Permian Basin with target market being California and specially designed for condensate that is being called crude oil. At least one is permitted. The problem not solved to get funding is having pending agreement for purchase of the production.

Diesel is profitable for most refineries gasoline doesn't make money.

Further to the why the US has refineries for heavy crude. that is what has been in California fo many decades due California's crude oil. That is heavier and as high sulfur content as what is pipelined to the US from Canada.

In the early 1980s the price of petroleum coke exploded upwards due new markets developed by German steel maker (tin plate specialty no one could match) and trading company, Otto Wolff. Heavy crude has a lot of residuals, aka asphaltenes, content which is the very bottom of the barrel and good for making petroleum coke. Gulf Coast refineries started reconfiguring to make profit from a once nuisance byproduct from squeezing the last diesel and gasoline from a barrel of oil. Price was not the major factor. It had been available for decades before.

That heavy is cheap is why is not a valid claim.

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SlidellCajun

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Melt bitch

You specifically pointed out crude oil, okey


you could have specifically posted out "other oils". where only 529 thousand bbl/wk were imported against 2388 were exported.

I think you were asleep and simply repeated the misleading gov't headline

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you could have specifically posted out "other oils". where only 529 thousand bbl/wk were imported against 2388 were exported.

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Those include Residual from the refining process. Each refinery has its own cocktail blend according to assays, not just API gravity and sulfur content. There are closely held secrets. Some refiners such as Valero used to import residuals from Russia for its blends. Residuals are still a refined product covered under other oils.

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It takes a long time but You can’t build a refinery if you don’t even start . Why hasn’t trump made us energy independent!?

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Keep shouting liberal but you know why - add it to the endless other crap he’s trying to fix that D’s broke.

You and your group hates

The United States of America is still the largest exporter of oil. Our stats are skewed by California that requires importation of fuels because of democrat insanity.

Wrong, historically they were built with sweet trains and sour trains. The only heavy crude was in California, Railroad Velley Nevade, and a play in Mississippi and Alabama. The Mississippi/Alabama crude made great asphalt. The Railroad Valley crude didn't even go through a crude unit. It went straight to a vacuum unit in a couple small refineries.

Canada had syncrude but not heavy crude production.

Whoever wrote this is a newbie and it is downright incorrect..