More Finished Goods Being Imported Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries May 2006 Import Highlights:  Released on July 14, 2006 Preliminary monthly data on the origins of crude oil imports in May 2006 has been released and it shows that three countries have each exported more than 1.40 million barrels per day [...]

Is "Sticktion" even a Real Word? Our friends at Ford Powerstroke / International Truck and Engine Corporation have recently modified the English language by finding a new use for a rather unusual word. The term Sticktion is being used to explain what happens when motor oil used to pressurize electro-hydraulic fuel injectors (such as the (HUEI) breaks [...]

What you need to know Within the industry there is a lot of speculation, personal opinion, half-truths, guesses (nearly all of which are wrong), and a lot of just plain bad information regarding this "new" fuel, how it will affect the new engines, the old engines, and how this is all going to work in [...]

How does water get into my fuel Water is arguably the biggest problem in petroleum, bio-fuels, and petro/bio-fuel blends. Water freezes in all the wrong places at all the wrong times. Water corrodes, oxidizes, or otherwise destabilizes almost anything it touches (this is why water is called the universal solvent). Water allows and encourages the [...]

What is Refined from a Barrel of Crude? Basic Petroleum Statistics Information taken from US Energy Information Administration April, 2006 Gallons of Oil per Barrel42 Barrels of Oil per Metric Ton (U.S.)7.33 U.S. Crude Oil Production5,419,000 barrels/day State Ranking of Crude Oil ProductionTexas - 1,073,000 barrels/day U.S. Crude Oil Imports10,088,000 barrels/day U.S. Crude Oil Imports [...]