US Exported More Oil Than it Imported For the First Time in Over 70 Years

 

We knew this was coming quickly, but it is now here.  Worse, the USA will be selling a full million barrels per day this coming year.   This is no slow change over and everyone must be scrambling to find buyers now.

Gas sales are also booming and cheap gas in the USA has made converting from a coal plant to a gas plant a no - brainer with almost no regulatory delay.  Our coal industry has been steadily shutting down.

The shale revolution has massively expanded available reserves in the USA and not stated, for every petroleum province in the world.  It is all those source rocks that we all drilled though for a century and now open to exploitation with horizontal fracking.

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US Exported More Oil Than it Imported For the First Time in Over 70 Years


Brian Wang | November 15, 2019

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2019/11/us-exported-more-oil-than-it-imported-for-the-first-time-in-over-70-years.html

Based on preliminary data and model estimates, EIA (US Energy Information Agency) estimates that the United States exported 140,000 b/d more total crude oil and petroleum products in September than it imported; total exports exceeded imports by 550,000 b/d in October. If confirmed in survey-collected monthly data, it would be the first time the United States exported more petroleum than it imported since EIA records began in 1949. EIA expects total crude oil and petroleum net exports to average 750,000 b/d in 2020 compared with average net imports of 520,000 b/d in 2019.

* USA is a first time net exporter of oil

* USA has record-high crude oil production of 12.8 million barrels per day. The US is projected to add another 1 million barrels per day in 2020.

* USA has record-high natural gas production

US total oil liquids production is over 20 million barrels per day and increasing to over 21 million barrels per day.

 




EIA forecasts that annual U.S. dry natural gas production will average 92.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2019, up 10% from 2018. EIA expects that natural gas production will grow much less in 2020 because of the lag between changes in price and changes in future drilling activity, with low prices in the third quarter of 2019 reducing natural gas-directed drilling in the first half of 2020. EIA forecasts natural gas production in 2020 will average 94.9 Bcf/d.

EIA expects U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to average 4.7 Bcf/d in 2019 and 6.4 Bcf/d in 2020 as three new liquefaction projects come online.

EIA expects the share of U.S. total utility-scale electricity generation from natural gas-fired power plants will rise from 34% in 2018 to 37% in 2019 and to 38% in 2020. EIA forecasts the share of U.S. electric generation from coal to average 25% in 2019 and 22% in 2020, down from 28% in 2018. EIA’s forecast nuclear share of U.S. generation remains at about 20% in 2019 and in 2020. Hydropower averages a 7% share of total U.S. generation in the forecast for 2019 and 2020, down from almost 8% in 2018. Wind, solar, and other nonhydropower renewables provided 9% of U.S. total utility-scale generation in 2018. EIA expects they will provide 10% in 2019 and 12% in 2020.

EIA forecasts that, after rising by 2.7% in 2018, U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will decline by 1.7% in 2019 and by 2.0% in 2020, partially as a result of lower forecast energy consumption.

EIA expects U.S. electric power sector generation from renewables other than hydropower—principally wind and solar—to grow from 408 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2019 to 466 billion kWh in 2020. The USA generated 807 billion kilowatt-hours of nuclear power in 2018.

EIA expects total U.S. coal production in 2019 to total 698 million short tons (MMst), an 8% decrease from the 2018 level of 756 MMst. The decline reflects lower demand for coal in the U.S. electric power sector and reduced competitiveness of U.S. exports in the global market. EIA expects U.S. steam coal exports to face increasing competition from Eastern European sources, and that Russia will fill a growing share of steam coal trade, causing U.S. coal exports to fall in 2020. EIA forecasts that coal production in 2020 will total 607 MMst.