How much oil is consumed in the United States?

Only a small amount of crude oil is directly consumed in the United States. Nearly all the crude oil that is produced in or imported into the United States is refined into petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, heating oil, and jet fuel, which are then consumed. Liquids produced from natural gas processing are also consumed as petroleum products. Renewable biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, are used as substitutes for or as additives to refined petroleum products. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) includes biofuels in consumption of petroleum products. EIA does not directly survey petroleum consumption and instead uses product supplied to represent U.S. petroleum consumption. Although we use petroleum product supplied interchangeably with petroleum consumption, the two are not identical.

In 2023, the United States consumed an average of about 20.25 million barrels of petroleum per day, or a total of about 7.39 billion barrels of petroleum.

Learn more:
Understanding petroleum product supplied—our proxy for consumption
How much of the crude oil produced in the United States is consumed in the United States?
How much oil consumed by the United States comes from foreign countries?
Petroleum Product Supplied data
U.S. Petroleum Supply and Disposition data
Monthly Energy Review, Petroleum, Table 3.1: Petroleum Overview and Table 3.5: Petroleum Products Supplied by Type
Energy Explained: Crude Oil and Petroleum Products–Use of Oil

Last updated: October 9, 2024, with data from Monthly Energy Review, March 2024; preliminary data.

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