Do they have a refinery? Why steal oil?
So that’s Colorado, Texas, Illinois and New York. Hum, see pattern folks?
There is a black market for everything. Oil is 70 dollars a barrel. Steal a 100 barrels = 7000 dollars. You then take it to a small independent producer and sell it to him for 35 dollars a barrel, yes this happens. Thus the thief and the independent corrupt producer are 3500 dollars ahead. There will be an American oilfield hand in the theft ring as they know the equipment. He may be white or Mexican but he will be an American or possibly an illegal that has been here for years and speaks English well.
Eventually that oil will make its way to a legitimate refinery and the refiners such as Exxon, Mobile, Texaco, etc. will buy it at the market price.
Perhaps next month.
at 2 dollars a gallon they need a big barrel