
EIA: Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline are critical chokepoints for oil and natural gas trade
The Suez Canal and the SUMED Pipeline are strategic routes for Persian Gulf crude oil, petroleum products, and LNG shipments to Europe and North America.
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The Suez Canal and the SUMED Pipeline are strategic routes for Persian Gulf crude oil, petroleum products, and LNG shipments to Europe and North America.

EIA estimates that in June, Iran alone accounted for more than 60% (1.7 million bpd) of all OPEC unplanned outages.

This milestone comes less than a year after US crude oil production surpassed 11 million bpd in August 2018.

A formal notice letter was handed to the Danish Energy Agency on 28 June.

US imports of crude oil from members of OPEC in March 2019 totalled 1.5 million bpd, their lowest level since March 1986, based on data in EIA’s Petroleum Supply Monthly.

The project focuses on the 140 000 km of the European gas network, with the aim of securing existing and incoming installations and making them resilient to cyber-physical threats.

The US Energy Information Administration has launched a new liquids pipeline projects database that tracks more than 200 crude oil, hydrocarbon gas liquids, and petroleum products pipeline projects.

The EIA report for the route of the Nord Stream 2 AG pipeline to the south-east of Bornholm has been made available for public display by Danish Energy Agency.

The US exports natural gas by pipeline to both Canada and Mexico and increasingly exports liquefied natural gas (LNG) to several other countries.

President Trump’s executive action supports the development of critical energy infrastructure.

Permian region crude oil prices have increased with additional pipeline takeaway capacity, according to the EIA.

The US Gulf Coast became a net exporter of crude oil in late 2018.