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@BanerjeeSuvra @nicksortor Venezuela??? Mmmnnn

Between us and Venezuela we got all types covered. The United States primarily produces light, sweet crude oil. This type has a high API gravity (typically 35–45° or higher, making it less dense and easier-flowing) and low sulfur content (often under 0.5%, classified as “sweet”). Key examples include: • West Texas Intermediate (WTI) — a major global benchmark with about 39–40° API gravity and ~0.24% sulfur. • Shale oil from regions like the Permian Basin, Bakken (North Dakota), and Eagle Ford (Texas), which is often extra-light to light and sweet. A smaller portion of U.S. production includes medium or heavier grades (e.g., from Alaska or certain Gulf of Mexico fields), but the shale boom has made light sweet crude dominant—accounting for the majority of output in the Lower 48 states. U.S. refineries (especially on the Gulf Coast) are largely configured for heavier crudes, so the country often imports heavier oils to blend with its domestic light production. Venezuela, in contrast, primarily produces heavy to extra-heavy, sour crude oil. This has low API gravity (often below 20°, sometimes as low as 8–17°, making it thick, viscous, and tar-like) and high sulfur content (typically 2–5% or more, classified as “sour”). Key examples and blends include: • Merey 16 (flagship export grade, ~16° API, high sulfur). • Orinoco Belt crudes (e.g., Hamaca ~17°, Boscan ~10°). • Blends like Mesa 30 (~29° API, still sour). The vast majority of Venezuela’s enormous reserves (concentrated in the Orinoco Belt) are extra-heavy, requiring dilution (often with lighter oils or condensates) for transport and specialized refining processes due to high viscosity, metals, and impurities. Quick Comparison • Light vs. Heavy — U.S. oil flows easily and yields more high-value products (like gasoline) with simpler refining; Venezuelan oil is dense and sticky, producing more residual material that needs complex processing (e.g., coking). • Sweet vs. Sour — U.S. oil has low sulfur (less corrosive, cheaper to refine into clean fuels); Venezuelan oil has high sulfur (more corrosive and requires desulfurization). • Implications — U.S. light sweet crude is generally higher-value and easier to handle globally. Venezuelan heavy sour crude complements complex refineries (including some in the U.S. Gulf Coast historically built for it) but is costlier and more challenging to produce/refine. Crude oil varies by specific field and can be blended, so these are generalizations based on dominant production profiles. Classifications use API gravity (density) and sulfur content as the main metrics.

🚨 NOW: 121 EMPTY OIL TANKERS are now en route to the UNITED STATES now that President Trump has launched a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz Holy crap. That's an INSANE amount of American oil about to be exported to countries around the world.

@PoxOnBothHouses @EricLDaugh Nowdays, the US government has resorted to the Strategic Oil Reserve (SPR) and an increase in imports from Venezuela. So, USA remains vulnerable to Gulf instability. Since oil is quoted in a global market, any shutdown in Hormuz shoots up gasoline prices in USA

@PoxOnBothHouses @EricLDaugh Hold on your horses. USA refineries on the Gulf Coast and the West Coast need heavy and bitter Gulf crude oil (especially from Saudi Arabia and Iraq) to mix with national light crude oil and operate efficiently.

🚨 MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT: At least 121 EMPTY OIL TANKERS are making their way to the United States of America right now 68 of them can carry 2 MILLION BARRELS EACH. Holy smokes! We are the world's gas station now! 🇺🇸 TRUMP: "China can send their ships to the U.S., China can send their ships to Venezuela...empty oil carrying ships from many nations are all headed to the U.S. to load up." Harris Faulkner: "68 of those 121 vessels are very large crude carriers capable of carrying 2 million barrels apiece." "President Trump has urged countries squeezed by Iran's disruption of the Strait of Hormuz to turn to American energy supplies instead." "Well — it would appear perhaps they are obliging him. They are listening to Trump!" @HARRISFAULKNER MASTERCLASS MOVE. Something tells me this was the intended outcome all along!

@BanerjeeSuvra @nicksortor Massive and Slow Investment: Reconfiguring all refineries to process only light U.S. crude would require billions of dollars in investment and take decades to complete due to technical complexity and permitting.

@BanerjeeSuvra @nicksortor Lack of Specific Fuels: The oil the U.S. produces is great for making gasoline but less efficient for producing diesel and jet fuel. Without imported heavy crude for blending, the supply of these critical fuels for shipping and aviation would drop drastically.

@nicksortor Terrible mistake . If the U.S. stopped importing oil suddenly, it wouldn't face a total energy blackout, but it would trigger a severe logistical, technical, and economic crisis.

@tonywil48126550 @actingliketommy @EricLDaugh Regional Imbalance: Due to a lack of sufficient pipelines, regions like the East Coast or California rely heavily on sea-borne imports. Without them, these areas would face much more acute energy shortages than producing states like Texas.

@tonywil48126550 @actingliketommy @EricLDaugh Massive and Slow Investment: Reconfiguring all refineries to process only light U.S. crude would require billions of dollars in investment and take decades to complete due to technical complexity and permitting.

🚨 DONALD TRUMP JUST STUNNED THE WORLD Suddenly, oil and gas tankers want to RUSH to the US to fill up on energy. Look at the Gulf of America! It's almost like 47 had a plan this entire time 🔥 "Boats are sailing up, heading to OUR country, big, beautiful tankers — we're loading them up with oil, gas, and everything else!" "It's a pretty beautiful thing to see."

@rlozano_guiller @migueleete_ @NunezFeijoo Sesgo político de humanidad, rasgo que parece que te falta a ti

@migueleete_ @NunezFeijoo Si que soy católica. Y que no se ha metido? Por favor, es lo que hace continuamente y siempre a favor de un sesgo político, como el otro Papa. Y lo de Nigeria con la boca pequeña.

El cristianismo es un faro ético y moral para millones de personas en el mundo, que no merece ser tomado a broma. Y el Papa León XIV es un referente para los católicos que debe ser escuchado y respetado. Los españoles lo haremos el próximo mes de junio, cuando tendremos el honor de recibirlo en una visita histórica. elmundo.es/internacional/…

@JoeyMannarino Bye

Hungarians have no idea what they've just lost in Viktor Orban. People spent years saying that Orban was a dictator and an autocrat. He just called Magyar to concede the elections without claiming fraud or trying to rig the system. Hungary has always been a democracy. Orban was never a dictator like the media said. He was a great man and an incredible leader. And now, Hungary just gave that all away to a man that NO ONE knows what to expect from. You're going to miss what you had, Hungary. I hope Magyar keeps the migrants out... or Budapest is going to turn into "Buss-it-open-apest" just like Paris, London and Berlin where you get raped walking out of the train station. May God save the Hungarian people.

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | El líder opositor Péter Magyar arrasa en las elecciones en Hungría y pone fin a los 16 años de la era Orbán, que admite su derrota shorturl.at/lpIfs

@CptAllenHistory Lea un poco. Ningún acusado del atentando unav.edu/web/global-aff…

How quickly Spain forgets. This day (April 12) in 1985, Iran via Hezbollah bombed the El Descanso Restaurant (9 miles from Madrid & minutes from the US Torrejon Air Base) on a busy Friday night & murdered 18 Spanish civilians while wounding another 84 (including 11 American airmen). At around 10:30 p.m. a Hezbollah terrorist placed a sports bag containing roughly 5 kg of high explosive under the bar counter and walked out. Minutes later the bomb detonated. The blast was so powerful that the entire three-story building collapsed, pancaking the upper floors onto the ground level and basement where between 200–300 diners and staff were eating, drinking, and enjoying a normal evening. Hezbollah made clear their main target was the US airmen, but they did not care how many Spanish civilians they killed: “The bomb was meant as an attack against the Yankee armed forces.”

@plario214541 Más fake que tú

La foto que desmiente A Pedro Sánchez . No tenía Mistad con Abalos y tampoco conocía a Koldo . Pero los tres viajaban juntios en el Falcon .

@oscar_puente_ Completamente de acuerdo contigo

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