Iraqi Crude Exports to the United States Fall Back to Zero After One Week

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Iraqi crude oil exports to the United States have returned to zero, the US Energy Information Administration announced on Sunday, marking a sharp reversal after just one week of resumed shipments that had briefly ended a seven-consecutive-week period of zero Iraqi oil imports to America.

The EIA's disclosure confirms that the fragile resumption of Iraqi crude flows to the United States, which the agency had announced on August 23, 2026, at 6,000 barrels per day, did not hold for a second week. The return to zero underlines the instability of current energy trade routes between Iraq and American refineries, reflecting the continued disruption to Gulf shipping caused by the six-month US-Iran conflict and the partial, contested status of the Strait of Hormuz corridor.

The EIA's weekly data also revealed the full picture of US crude import sources for the previous week, showing Canada as the dominant supplier by an enormous margin, exporting 3 million and 526 thousand barrels per day to the United States and ranking first among all crude oil exporters to the country. Venezuela ranked second at 662,000 barrels per day, followed by Brazil at 348,000 barrels, Mexico at 196,000 barrels, and Saudi Arabia at 165,000 barrels per day.

Colombia ranked sixth with a daily average of 141,000 barrels, followed by Libya at 89,000 barrels and Nigeria at 50,000 barrels per day. The EIA noted that no data was available for imports from Algeria, Angola, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kuwait, Norway, Russia, or Trinidad and Tobago during the same period.

The EIA also confirmed that US crude imports from both Iraq and Ecuador fell to zero in the previous week, a development that places Iraq alongside Ecuador as the two countries whose oil shipments to the United States have completely stopped in the most recent reporting period.

The data paints a stark picture of how the US-Iran conflict has reshaped American energy import patterns. Canada's dominance at 3.5 million barrels per day reflects Washington's accelerated effort to secure North American energy supply chains as Gulf routes remain disrupted, even as the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and Canada over 50 percent tariffs imposed in August 2026 complicates that relationship. Saudi Arabia's 165,000 barrels per day represents a fraction of its pre-war export capacity to the United States, itself a reflection of the disruptions that have affected Saudi export terminals since the conflict began.

Iraq's oil exports had collapsed from nearly 100 million barrels in February 2026, generating approximately six billion dollars in revenue, to below 10 million barrels in April, according to warnings issued by Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on June 6, 2026. The brief resumption of 6,000 barrels per day to the United States last week, followed by an immediate return to zero this week, suggests that the logistical and security conditions for sustained Iraqi crude deliveries to American refineries remain highly unstable despite the partial reopening of Hormuz traffic that UK Maritime Trade Operations Center data confirmed last week.