Nigeria Overtakes Saudi Arabia in Crude Supply to US

Nigeria has overtaken Saudi Arabia in the ranking of crude oil exporters to the United States, a preliminary data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has shown.
According to the EIA data on the US crude import rankings in March 2007, Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer and the world’s eighth, leaped from fifth place in February to third in March, pushing Saudi Arabia, the world’s top exporter into fourth place.
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