Crude oil imports into the southern United States have gone from around 1.3 million barrels per day to a trickle, U.S. government data show Tuesday. A crude oil import tracking tool produced by the Energy Information Administration show a steady decrease in crude oil imports to the southern U.S. coast. “Historically, Gulf Coast refineries have imported as much as 1.3 million barrels per day of light-sweet crude oil, more than any other region of the country,” EIA said in a Tuesday brief. “Beginning in 2010, improvements to the crude distribution system and sustained increases in production in the region have significantly reduced light crude imports.” Gulf Coast imports come from Latin American and Canadian producers, as well as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. EIA data from last week show commercial crude oil stocks […]