US Crude Oil Production Sets New Record in 2025

The output increase came despite lower rig counts and fewer wells being drilled.

A pumpjack sits on the outskirts of town at dawn in the Permian Basin oil field in the oil town of Midland, Texas, on Jan. 21, 2016. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Crude oil output in the United States reached a new annual record last year, growing by 3 percent to hit 13.6 million barrels per day (b/d), the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a March 31 statement.

“Production from the Lower 48 states excluding the Gulf of America ... accounted for 11.3 million b/d, or 83 percent of the total U.S. crude oil production in 2025,“ the agency said. ”The rest of the production came from Federal Gulf of America ... and Alaska.”