(October 30, 2022 at 7:27 am)Belacqua Wrote: Then there is the air support which is based in nearby countries. Including Israel, which routinely bombs Syria.
The US gets the oil, though.
The US is the top oil producing nation in the world, pumping 18.9 million barrels per day in 2021, for 20 percent of global production.
We produce so much oil we even export it. Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of crude oil during 2021:
- Saudi Arabia: US$161.7 billion (16.5% of exported crude oil)
- Russia: $82 billion (8.3%)
- Canada: $74 billion (7.5%)
- Iraq: $72.1 billion (7.3%)
- United Arab Emirates: $69.4 billion (7.1%)
- United States: $41 billion (4.2%)