OIL SANDS COULD BECOME THE TOP SOURCE OF U.S. CRUDE OIL IMPORTS

摘要

Canadian oil sands have increasingly become an important source of global oil supply growth. If measured against the imports from oil producing countries, Canadian oil sands are set to become the number one source of crude oil imports in the United States (U.S.), according to new research from the IHS CERA, a global consulting based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Oil sands imports could ultimately increase to a range of 20 to 36 percent of U.S. oil and refined product imports by 2030 from the 2009 level of 8 percent, according to the IHS CERA report, The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in U.S. Oil Supply.