EIA reports on US crude oil production

Texas continues to produce more crude oil than any other state or region of the US, accounting for 41% of the national total in 2019. Texas crude oil production averaged 5.07 million bpd in 2019 and reached a monthly record of 5.35 million bpd in December 2019. Texas’s production increase of almost 660 000 bpd in 2019 – driven by significant growth within the Permian region in western Texas – was 53% of the total US increase for the year. Texas crude oil production has grown by 3.9 million bpd, or 333%, since 2010.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Supply Monthly

Several other US. states or regions set production records in 2019. In addition to contributing to Texas’s record production year, the Permian region drove a 248 000 bpd, or 36%, crude oil production increase in New Mexico. This increase was the second largest state-level growth in 2019 and accounted for 20% of the total US increase. In 2019, New Mexico set a new oil production record for the third consecutive year, growing by 749 000 bpd since 2010.

In the Offshore Federal Gulf of Mexico (the US controlled waters in the Gulf of Mexico), new projects contributed to the region’s growth in production in 2019. Oil and natural gas producers brought online seven new projects in 2019, and EIA expects nine more will come online in 2020. The Offshore Federal Gulf of Mexico’s crude oil production grew by 126 000 bpd in 2019, leading to the area’s highest annual average production of 1.88 million bpd. The Offshore Federal Gulf of Mexico was the second-largest crude oil producing region in the US in 2019.

Colorado and North Dakota also set record production levels in 2019 of approximately 514 000 bpd and 1.4 million bpd, respectively. The Niobrara shale formation drove production increases in Colorado, and continued production in the Bakken region drove increases in North Dakota. Production in Oklahoma increased by 32 000 bpd in 2019 but did not surpass Oklahoma’s record production of 613 000 bpd set in 1967.

Increases in these states and regions more than offset production declines elsewhere. Alaska’s crude oil production decreased for the second year in a row, and California’s production declined for the fifth year in a row.

In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, EIA forecasts US crude oil production will continue to increase in 2020 to an average of 13.2 million bpd and to 13.6 million bpd in 2021. Most of the expected production growth will occur in the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico.

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