CLAIM · VERIFIED ✓ · CONFIDENCE 0.80AUTO-PUBLISHED · POLICY-GATEDSINGLE ORIGIN AT PUBLISH
Increased utilization of the Trans Mountain Expansion pipeline partly reduced Canadian crude exports to the U.S. in 2025.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because oil prices set the cost of everything shipped and the revenue of petrostates, and the current tug-of-war between weak Chinese demand and Middle East war risk decides whether inflation eases or spikes worldwide.
Part of the monitored dynamic Global Oil Markets · VUCA INDEX 49/100
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-sonnet-5) from eia.gov · auto-published AUG 8 (tier-1 source, clean AI verification) — desk spot-checks apply.
Extracted AUG 4; auto-published AUG 8 at 0.80.
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- US total active oil and gas rig count rose to 588, up 48 from a year earlier, per Baker Hughes.
- Brent traded at $89.95 and WTI at $84.67 on Friday, with Brent down $6 week-over-week.
- US crude oil production averaged 13.796 million bpd for week ending July 24, 2026, down from 13.798 million bpd prior week, per EIA.
- U.S. crude oil exports to Canada averaged 383,000 barrels per day in 2025, 2% less than in 2024.
- Brent crude oil prices averaged $69 per barrel in 2025, $11/b lower than in 2024.
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