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Continuing demand for heavy crude in the US

Monday, December 7th, 2015 Category: Eye on Ecopetrol
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Continuing demand for heavy crude in the US

The battle over oil prices is a battle over production with Saudi Arabia saying it wants to regain US market share lost to higher-cost shale oil. But that is light oil and US refineries still need a significant supply of heavy crude due to the configuration of their plants. The graph shows that the US represents an increasing share of Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) exports, at least over the last six quarters.

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