LONDON: In the final week of 2020, the United States imported no crude from Saudi Arabia for the first time in 35 years. But it’s not quite the historic moment it might seem at first sight.
As recently as 2017, the desert kingdom was regularly sending more than one million barrels a day of its crude across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to the US.
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