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Company Level Imports

With Data for December 2022   |  Release Date:  February 28, 2023   |  Next Release Date: March 31, 2023   |   XLSX     

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December 2022 Import Highlights

Monthly data on the origins of crude oil imports in December 2022 show that one country, Canada, exported more than one million barrels per day to the United States (see table below). The top five exporting countries accounted for 85% of United States crude oil imports in December while the top ten sources accounted for approximately 95% of all U.S. crude oil imports. The top five sources of U.S. crude oil imports for December were Canada (3.5 million b/d), Mexico (576,000 b/d), Saudi Arabia (500,000 b/d), Iraq (276,000 b/d), and Colombia (215,000 b/d). The remaining top ten sources, in order, were Brazil (148,000 b/d), Ecuador (140,000 b/d), Nigeria (134,000 b/d), Guyana (100,000 b/d), and Libya ( 93,000 b/d). Total crude oil imports averaged 6.0 million b/d in December, which was a decrease of 253,000 b/d from imports during November 2022.

Canada remained the largest exporter of total petroleum to the United States in December; exporting 4.2 million b/d. The second largest exporter of total petroleum was Mexico with 762,000 b/d.

Crude oil imports (Top 15 countries)


(thousand barrels per day)
Country Dec-22 Nov-22 YTD 2022 Dec-21 YTD 2021
Canada 3,533 3,755 3,794 4,085 3,760
Mexico 576 490 637 492 583
Saudi Arabia 500 440 456 472 356
Iraq 276 265 244 223 152
Colombia 215 205 223 212 180
Brazil 148 184 146 84 104
Ecuador 140 159 142 203 148
Nigeria 134 122 94 110 108
Guyana 100 97 77 - 76
Libya 93 76 79 55 90
Trinidad And Tobago 63 51 44 28 39
Argentina 60 101 62 61 28
Kuwait 47 39 27 12 21
Ghana 47 74 56 93 51
Norway 25 - 19 85 48

Total imports of petroleum (Top 15 countries)


(thousand barrels per day)
Country Dec-22 Nov-22 YTD 2022 Dec-21 YTD 2021
Canada 4,160 4,304 4,354 4,783 4,340
Mexico 762 657 807 645 711
Saudi Arabia 605 553 558 550 430
Iraq 326 380 311 223 157
Colombia 218 223 242 228 203
Brazil 189 238 194 101 143
Ecuador 178 197 169 219 168
Nigeria 134 131 105 110 125
Bahamas, The 119 41 32 52 15
United Kingdom 118 119 106 126 104
Korea, South 117 150 122 102 135
Guyana 100 97 77 - 76
Libya 93 76 79 55 91
Argentina 86 127 76 77 38
India 71 0 68 94 100

Note: The data in the tables above exclude oil imports into the U.S. territories.

Crude oil imports from Persian Gulf 2016 (discontinued)

Explanatory notes

Sources  - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) petroleum imports data are available at the company level. The data source is the Form EIA-814, "Monthly Imports Report."

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