Baru said high level contacts have been made with Niger Republic on the possibility of importing crude from the country. (securitykingng.org)
After all, Canada is oil independent, yet refineries in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, lacking access to western Canadian oil, import crude from Algeria and the U.K. Subject to no tariffs and few other import restrictions, raw energy is a freely traded commodity that follows the dictates of the market. (canadianbusiness.com)
A 100,000 bpd reduction in imported crude and products is seen by analysts and sources as the United States imposing light sanctions. (fortune.com)