Energy Information Administration Offers Improved Crude Oil Import Tracking
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a new crude oil import tool that will improve the ability for users to find and review data on the subject, the Department of Energy agency said (here). Among other features, "the tool allows…
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users to sort and display crude oil imports in monthly or annual time series, by crude type (i.e., light, medium, heavy), country source, receiving terminal, processing company, processing facility," it said. The tool could also "be used to provide timely data during emergency response situations, including how much crude is imported through a given port, what types of imported crude enter that port, and which refineries are serviced by that port," it said. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, celebrated the release. “Our nation is importing record low levels of oil from the world’s volatile regions and exporting record volumes of all sorts of energy to our friends and allies,” Murkowski said (here). “This new tool is a welcome addition to the analytical arsenal at EIA.”