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Produced and used, counted two ways

Did the US produce more oil than it used in 2025?

Coverage: 2025 annual average

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

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What this dataset measures

These four figures settle whether the US produces more oil than it uses, and show why the answer depends on whether gases like propane count as oil.

Geography
United States
Unit of observation
One EIA supply and disposition figure for 2025
Update cadence
Annual; EIA's next release is due August 31, 2027
Curator
FactHub Research Team

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Produced and used, counted two ways

Question: Did the US produce more oil than it used in 2025?

Result: Counting gas liquids, 21.2 million barrels a day produced and 20.7 million used. Crude oil alone, 13.7 million pumped and 16.4 million run by refineries.

Operation: Divide each EIA figure by 1,000 for million barrels a day, and group them into two readings: crude oil plus natural gas liquids produced against all oil and fuel used, and crude oil produced against crude oil run by refineries.

Scope: US annual averages, 2025

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  • 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, not with all crude used.

Sources

  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.

License: FactHub's selection, cleaning and combined tables are licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source data keeps the terms listed above (terms).

Limitations and reproducibility

reproducible: Each value is copied from EIA's Supply and Disposition, U.S., Annual table (release of October 30, 2026), at the row and column named in the table. The analysis divides each by 1,000 to give million barrels a day.

  • EIA measures use as products supplied: oil and fuel delivered to US buyers, which is close to, but not exactly, what is burned.
  • Field production of crude oil and natural gas liquids (13,662 + 7,516) is 21,178 thousand barrels a day, one more than EIA's own total of 21,177, because of rounding in EIA's table.
  • 2025 figures are EIA's first annual release and can be revised.

Publications using this dataset

Version details

The exact citing versions, and the version of this dataset each cites.

  • Chart us-oil-two-readings-2025 — version 2 (published) cites version 1
  • Chart us-oil-two-readings-2025 — version 1 (published) cites version 1

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