EIA: US to return to being net importer of crude and petroleum products
Published by Tom Mostyn,
Editorial Assistant
Tanks and Terminals,
In the April Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA forecasts that the US will again become a net importer of crude oil and petroleum products in 3Q20 and remain a net importer in most months through the end of 2021. Fewer barrels are available for export as US crude oil production continues to decline. In addition, net exports of petroleum products will be lowest in the 3Q20, when US refinery runs decline in response to lower demand for refined products.
In September 2019, the US exported 89 000 bpd more crude oil and petroleum products than it imported and became a net exporter of crude oil and petroleum products for the first time since monthly records began in 1973. The US continued to be a net exporter through February when net exports reached 1.79 million bpd, and the April STEO forecasts that net exports will continue through May 2020.
However, as a result of recent significant changes in global oil market dynamics, EIA is revising its March STEO forecast that US net exports would average 600 000 bpd in 2020 and 300 000 bpd in 2021. EIA now forecasts in the April STEO that US imports and exports will be nearly equal in 2020 and that US net imports will average 1.4 million bpd in 2021.
It is important to note that the April STEO is subject to heightened levels of uncertainty because the global response to the 2019 novel coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) is dynamic, and the impacts on energy markets continue to evolve. The response has already caused changes in energy fuel supply and demand patterns that are highlighted in the April STEO assumptions.
Read the article online at: https://www.tanksterminals.com/terminals/08042020/eia-us-to-return-to-being-net-importer-of-crude-and-petroleum-products/
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