Oil Production Increases in Oklahoma, Texas and most other states

Figures released this week by the U.S. Energy Information Administration show oil production in the country continues to rise including in Oklahoma and Texas, two heavy oil-production states.

The latest production figures from the EIA run from July 2017 to December 2017 indicating Oklahoma’s monthly production started its climb last summer. The state’s production went from 13,734,000 barrels of oil in July to reach 15,434,000 by December 2017.

Daily oil production in Oklahoma went from 443,000 barrels a day to 498,000 barrels a day by December.

In Texas, December production was up to 121,929,000 barrels of oil while its daily production rose from 3.4 million barrels to 3.93 million.

Production rose in New Mexico too, going from 13,859,000 barrels a month in July to 17,237,000 barrels by December 2017.

Colorado’s production went from 10,618,000 barrels last July to 13,334,000 by December.

But production in Kansas dropped. Its July 2017 production was at 3,046,000 barrels of oil and dropped to 2,868,000 by December. The state’s daily production went from 98,000 barrels to 93,000 barrels in December 2017.