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U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON DC 20585

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 25, 2024

Resource Advisory: Tracking crude oil and natural gas production with EIA data

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has several sets of data on the domestic production of crude oil and natural gas. Depending on your interests, the resources below can help you find the crude oil and natural gas data you need.

Table 1. Key production figures from the latest EIA data
	2023 annual	June 2024
Crude oil	12.9 million b/d	13.2 million b/d
Dry natural gas	103.8 Bcf/d	103 Bcf/d
Note: Bcf/d=billion cubic feet per day; b/d=barrels per day

Crude oil

Crude oil production is typically measured in barrels or barrels per day. When EIA analyzes crude oil production, it relies on field production of crude oil and lease condensate, which is published at the national level, at the Petroleum Administration for Defense District (PADD) level, and at the state level.

Crude oil is refined into a series of consumable petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. EIA publishes U.S. production of petroleum products in the Petroleum Supply and Disposition table, under the Refinery and Blender Net Production column.

EIA publishes short-term forecasts of total U.S. crude oil production and forecasts of tight oil production (oil production by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking) by geologic formation.

Natural gas

Natural gas production is typically measured in billion cubic feet or billion cubic feet per day. Natural gas is unique in that its production can be measured in three ways:

Gross withdrawals of natural gas include everything pulled from the ground, including product that is ultimately flared or siphoned off to another product stream. EIA tracks gross withdrawals at the national level and by state.
Marketed or wet natural gas production is smaller than gross withdrawals because it does not include gas that was vented, flared, used for repressuring, or removed during treating and processing. EIA publishes historical and forecast marketed natural gas production at the national and regional level. Historical marketed production is also available by state.
Dry natural gas production is what goes to the consumer. It’s lower than wet production because it does not include natural gas plant liquids such as ethane and propane that are counted in marketed production. EIA publishes dry natural gas production at the national level and by state. EIA publishes dry natural gas production by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) by shale gas formation.

EIA publishes varying data series of monthly and annual crude oil and natural gas production. The agency also publishes weekly estimates of some production measures. Members of the press can contact our media relations team with any questions at EIAMedia@eia.gov.

The data described in this advisory were prepared by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the statistical and analytical agency within the U.S. Department of Energy. By law, EIA’s data, analysis, and forecasts are independent of approval by any other officer or employee of the U.S. government. The views in the product and this press release therefore should not be construed as representing those of the U.S. Department of Energy or other federal agencies.

EIA Press Contact: Chris Higginbotham, EIAMedia@eia.gov