Canada pumps 6.1M barrels of oil a day. We can refine 1.9M.
98% of our crude exports go to the U.S. — which now tariffs them 10%.
B.C. sends crude to Washington State refineries, then buys it back as gasoline.
Forty years in the making. The full anatomy ↓
Canada produced about 6.1 million barrels of oil per day in 2025. Its 14 refineries can process about 1.9 million barrels per day and ran at roughly 90% of that capacity. The arithmetic gap defines the system: roughly 4 million barrels a day leave the country as crude, 98% of it to the United…