Quelle: Weltbank WITS, HS 270900 Rohölimporte.
Ich habe die durchschnittlichen Importkosten pro Barrel anhand des jährlichen Importwerts und der jährlichen Importmenge geschätzt: USD/Barrel ≈ Importwert ÷ geschätzte Barrel
Verwendete Umrechnung: kg → metrische Tonnen → Barrel, unter der Annahme von 7,3 Barrel pro metrische Tonne.
Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Schätzung des Importstückwerts, nicht um den genauen ausgehandelten Kaufpreis. Sie kann je nach Rohölsorte, Versand, Lieferantenmix und Vertragsstruktur variieren.
Im Vereinigten Königreich fehlen seit einigen Jahren WITS-Mengenfelder, daher bleiben diese Punkte leer.
Von someonestoic
18 Kommentare
Could be better logistics chain?
I’m guessing it’s the overhead of dealing with conversion rates to and from the petrodollar – of which I believe the US is exempt.
Doesn’t the US one of the few countries that can refine really crappy crude oil like Venezuala’s? Maybe that’s it
The US has better refinery tech. They can purchase lower quality stuff and still make a good product out of it. They export a lot of oil too, selling it to countries that don’t have the same tech they do.
We are importing worse grades of crude
Maybe something to do that most of our imports come from nearby Canada and Mexico?
Because we import it from Canada and Mexico to help boost their economies since you don’t want neighbors with bad economies- as well for other reasons I’m sure such as influence. They provide the majority of our crude oil imports.
edit: why is this getting downvoted? I answered OPs question
also u/derpmaddness, you ok dude? Kinda lame to send me some comment flaming me (with your own strawman) and then delete it
The US is well known for being able to refine really shitty oil – like Canada tar sands. So the reason the US imports crude, despite ‚drill baby drilling‘ enough domestically, and also is the worlds largest exporter of refined petroleum is that we will import cheap low-grade oil from counties that lack the capacity to refine it, and export high quality domestic oil to countries that can refine that stuff.
So what you’re seeing is the US soaking up shitty oil that nobody wants, for cheap, and exporting high quality oil at top prices. When politicians talk about the US needing energy independence, don’t believe them. We have it, and then some. We export loads of the stuff.
Canada. Domestic policies have made it difficult/expensive to build out additional capacity for oil to reach the coast for overseas markets but the infrastructure exists to ship it to Gulf Coast refineries in the USA. A lot of it from Alberta is heavy crude (oil/tarsands) and the Gulf Coast refineries are set up to process it.
They got us Canadians over a barrel…
We have built a lot of pipeline infrastructure that only goes to the US. With no other customer we have essentially created a monopsony for ourselves and pay the price. Google wti-wcs spread to see the discount
Much of our buying is Heavy Canadian which hits the border via pipeline at (more or less) $11/bbl under WTI, while much of the rest of the world is buying light crude delivered by ship at (more or less) $4-5/bbl over WTI.
Because Canada sells it at a discount to the US. Most of the imported oil comes from Canada.
If you’re Japan everything has to be shipped in on oil tankers.
If you’re the US, you can just open the pipeline tap from Canada.
Mexican Oil > Western US: $82-$88
Mexican Oil > Japan : $130
Also, we buy a lot of the crappy oil that nobody else wants/is able to refine. For example right now
Saudi Oil is around $125/gallon
Canadian Albertan oil is $90/gallon.
[Oil Price Charts | Oilprice.com](https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/)
So, there are very low transport costs and it’s also just a cheaper product. THe US also produces so much oil that we can just pick and choose when it makes sense to import.
How come none of the comments are about the representation of the data (the purpose of this sub), and instead we have five people commenting with the same answer to the clickbait title question?
Sub-Prime oil that we mix with good oil to get it to pass.
Because of Canada.
Canada is a captive market, they have lacked the infrastructure for decades to get their crude oil to a major oil port in quantities big enough to change the economics of what they can sell oil at. The US has been a massive beneficient of this imbalance, so we buy it from Canada under the market price because of it.
TLDR Canada only has one real buyer: the US. That means Canadian companies get screwed a bit on their selling price
Canada.
We sell them our oil at a steep discount due to transportation costs being prohibitive to get it to global markets.
And it’s … difficult… to get oil piplines built in developed countries in the 21st century…
U.S. exports its light sweet crude, which is the most expensive on the global market b/c it’s cheap/easy to refine.
U.S. then imports the cheaper heavy oil that’s harder/more expensive to refine at U.S. refineries. U.S. refineries are not built for the oil produced in the U.S.
It’s a stupid, “greed above logic” way of managing petroleum production.