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
Curated data tables
EIA supply and disposition figures, 2025
The four 2025 figures this dataset uses, as EIA publishes them.
Unit of observation: One EIA figure
4 field definitions
| Field | Type | Meaning | Units | Value type |
measure |
string |
What the figure measures, in plain words. |
— |
observed |
eia_row |
string |
The row of EIA's table the figure comes from. |
— |
observed |
eia_column |
string |
The column of EIA's table the figure comes from. |
— |
observed |
thousand_barrels_per_day |
integer |
The 2025 annual average, in thousand barrels a day, as EIA publishes it. |
— |
observed |
Sources
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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.
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Chart
us-oil-two-readings-2025 —
version 2
(published) cites version 1
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Chart
us-oil-two-readings-2025 —
version 1
(published) cites version 1
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