For the second week in a row… Iraq surpasses Saudi Arabia in its oil exports to America, 5 FEB

 For the second week in a row… Iraq surpasses Saudi Arabia in its oil exports to America

On Sunday, the US Energy and Information Administration declared that although Iraq’s oil shipments to the US had dropped over the previous week, they were still more than Saudi Arabia’s for the second consecutive week.

“The US imports of crude oil during the past week from eight major countries amounted to 4.940 million barrels per day, an increase of 450 thousand barrels per day compared to the previous week, which amounted to 4.490 million barrels per day,” the administration stated in a table obtained by

“Iraq’s oil shipments to America last week amounted to 205 thousand barrels per day, down from the previous week, which reached an average of 206 thousand barrels per day,” the speaker continued.

She emphasized that “Canada supplied an average of 3.573 million barrels of oil per day, accounting for the majority of America’s oil revenue during the past week.”

Nigeria came in second with an average of 190 thousand barrels per day, followed by Mexico with an average of 427 thousand barrels per day, and Brazil with an average of 213 thousand barrels per day in oil income.

“The amount of crude oil that the United States imports from Saudi Arabia is 150,000 barrels per day, from Ecuador it is 103,000 barrels per day, and from Colombia it is 79,000 barrels per day,” the administration stated.

However, neither Russia nor Libya supplied any significant amounts to the United States.