Leading Importers of Oil

According to the data that we can find in the Wikipedia official site, that as of the year 2006, the Top Ten Leading Importers of Oil in the world are the following countries:

  1. United States (12.2 million barrels per day)
  2. Japan (5.0)
  3. China (3.4)
  4. Germany (2.4)
  5. South Korea (2.1)
  6. France (1.8)
  7. India (1.6)
  8. Italy (1.5)
  9. Spain (1.5)
  10. Taiwan (1.0)

Oil Derrick Worship

Oil Derrick Worship

That now given, one can now see on that data above, that the United States of America has recorded twice or larger times more than the next country after it, which is Japan. According again to one expert on the oil industry, who wrote for Suite101.com, that America alone as the “world’s most powerful” in the economy “consumes well over 20 million barrels” in a single day. Technically speaking, experts on this filed based their measurement on the consumption of oil according to the population or the GDP (Gross Domestic Product).

Grangemouth Oil Refinery

Grangemouth Oil Refinery


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