الملخص

Crude oil is one of the most widely used fossil energy sources at the global level, and it is the main engine of the global economy, including the US economy, which still consumes about 20% of the world's daily oil consumption of 100 million / b / d. Therefore, the cessation of the arrival of crude oil or part of it to The United States is the obsession that preoccupies decision makers in American foreign policy. The United States was and still is, and perhaps will remain in the future, and in the short and medium term, seeking to ensure the flow of crude oil coming from abroad, by all legal and illegal means, and what wars and conflicts the United States fought and more From half a century of time in the areas where crude oil sources and near them, and around the supply routes of international trade only testify to the strategic role of crude oil in the energy policy of the United States.