USA in 2020 significantly increased the volume of oil supply and petroleum products from Russia. Reports about it Bloomberg.
For a day, Russia supplied on average 538 thousand barrels of petroleum products, and at the end of the year, deliveries from Moscow were 7 percent of the total procurement. At the same time, this indicator fluctuated at the level of 0.5 percent. The reason for such a step was the sanctions introduced against Venezuela, and a decrease in the volume of deliveries from OPEC countries after reducing the mining of the cartel.
American oil refineries buy in Russia mostly not crude oil, but fuel oil. It is used for the operation of gasoline production facilities.
The publication argues that the growing dependence of America from Russian oil contradicts the US energy security doctrine. As the former Oil Analyst TsRA Mark Finley noted, the statements of the former US President Donald Trump that the United States “will never have to depend on hostile foreign suppliers,” are “empty mantra”.
March 1, Trump pre-banks, with the new American leader Joe Biden, dependence on Russia and the Middle East in the supply of oil. He noted that the United States has already lost the status of the superpower in the energy sector, and added that during democrats, the price of gasoline in the country rose for a third.
Previously, the US Mainnergo Energy Information (EIA) presented annual forecasts at oil prices in the foreseeable future. And in one of them, the department expects that by 2050 the Brent variety will cost 173 dollars per barrel. True, in the pessimistic scenario we are talking about $ 48