Libyan exports were largely-composed of light sweet crude, which is what U.S. produces.
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The U.S. will release 30 million barrels of light sweet crude from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve over next 30 days.
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It is no coincidence that the bench mark oils, like North Sea Brent or West Texas, are light sweet crudes.
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Light sweet crude is depleting quickly, and now the industry is going after heavy crude and tar sands and thermally enhanced oil.
The sauce is based on a light sweet-and-sour, pepped up with a deep chile spiciness and a trace of Sichuan pepper that will make your lips tingle pleasantly.
Finally, sample a dram of the light, sweet whisky in the malt barn.
Its current 50% discount off light, sweet crude was, until recently, unheard of.
The ice cream is light, sweet and flavourful, the perfect accompaniment to the often-intense Cuban heat, and comes with a vanilla wafer-like cookie.
Currently the SPR is the fullest it has ever been, with 727 million barrels of mostly light, sweet crude in storage.
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The oil, from producers in western Canada, is gooey, acidic and high in sulfur--harder to refine than benchmark West Texas Intermediate (light, sweet) crude.
Light, sweet crudes are cheaper to pump, transport, and distill and produce more gasoline per barrel than other types of crudes so it generally goes for more dollars per barrel than others.
Light, sweet pop sounds in songs such as "Pieces" and "The Pact (I'll Be Your Fever)" are interwoven with darker, moodier themes of love, loss and death in the title track and "Twenty Seven Strangers, " with affecting and beguiling results.
"Sweet Heart Sweet Light" is less complex than the group's previous efforts, but not by much.
So increasing production of WTI does not help world supplies of sweet light very much.
As a result prices for sweet light crude tends to be higher than heavier or sour crudes.
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Further, world production of sweet light crudes has indeed peaked, which means the imbalance between production capacity and refining capacity will increase.
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There are those who have been arguing that the world production of sweet light crudes has either peaked is close to peaking.
World production of sweet light crude oils occurred a few years ago.
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Sweet light crude oil yields the most gallons of gasoline per barrel of oil and since it has low viscosity and low density, it is comparatively inexpensive to pump, transport, and refine.
Spiritualized backed off a bit on "Sweet Heart Sweet Light" but, as it was with the group's other discs, the new album still features the kind of arrangements that take special care: thick, droning, not-so-simple waves of swooping, swirling guitars and synths under Mr. Pierce's laid-back vocals.
North Sea Brent and WTI, the two benchmark crude oils are both sweet, light.
So more profits are generated per barrel of sweet, light than heavier or sour crude oils.
This means that the price the for sweet, light crudes is higher than other heavier or sour crudes.
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Bakken crude is a sweet, light crude that typically has a gravity of 40 to 42 degrees, ideal for most U.S. refineries.
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World crude oil production has in some cases already peaked (sweet, light) while others (heavy, sour) it has yet to be will soon.
Then dig into this light, smoky, sweet and salty dish.
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And the same will be true for the US. There is some mixture of light and heavy, sweet and sour, crudes which is optimal to provide the refined products the US desires to use.
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If ExxonMobil is looking at a shortage of sweet-light in its mid-western refineries, they can go to the futures market and buy a few weeks supply of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in 60 days.
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" The second is the creation of Ms. Cash's daughter, Carrie Crowell, whose cake is not as "Southern" in style as Grandma Carrie's, but, according to Ms. Cash, is "rich and light and also really sweet, in the best way.
Light and elegant, but also sweet, spicy and bracingly fresh, this dish has enough layers of flavor and texture to engage any palate.
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