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The US produces more oil than it uses, unless you count only crude

US oil produced and used in 2025, counting propane and other gas liquids as oil, as the government does, and counting crude oil alone.

Credit: FactHub Research Team; data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration

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Two pairs of tanks on one scale. Counting propane and other gas liquids, the US produced 21.2 million barrels a day in 2025 and used 20.7 million. Counting crude oil alone, US wells pumped 13.7 million and US refineries used 16.4 million, 2.7 million short.
Counting propane and other gas liquids as oil, as the government does, the US produced 21.2 million barrels a day in 2025 and used 20.7 million, about 0.4 million more than it used. Counting crude oil alone, US wells pumped 13.7 million barrels a day and US refineries used 16.4 million, 2.7 million short.

What this chart asks

Does the US produce more oil than it uses?

Why it is shown this way

  • The claim depends on what you count as oil, so both readings sit side by side on one shared scale, each as a pair of tanks for produced and used.
  • Stacking crude oil and gas liquids in the produced tank shows how much of the surplus comes from the gas liquids.

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Sources

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US oil produced and used, 2025: two ways to count

  1. EIA, Supply and Disposition, U.S., Annual Source of every value

    Retrieved November 4, 2026. Public domain (U.S. government work). allowed

    Reliability: Government. The federal statistical agency for energy. It compiles the table from mandatory industry surveys.

Limitations

  • Use is EIA's products supplied: oil and fuel delivered to US buyers, close to but not exactly what is burned.
  • The crude-only reading compares crude pumped in the US with crude run by US refineries.

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  • Article us-oil-production-vs-use — version 6 (published) cites version 2
  • Article us-oil-production-vs-use — version 5 (published) cites version 1

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