U.S. oil

For about 6 years, crude oil production in the U.S. has been climbing. Innovation, new and improved industry methods, has done the heavy lifting here.

Before 2012 Saudi Arabia and Russia were the world leaders and way beyond us, but that was changing. By 2018, according to this article at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the United States had surpassed them both in barrels per day.

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