U.S. Crude Oil Field Production (Thousand Barrels per Day)



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U.S. Crude Oil Field Production (Thousand Barrels per Day)

Decade	Year-0	Year-1	Year-2	Year-3	Year-4	Year-5	Year-6	Year-7	Year-8	Year-9
1850's										0
1860's	1	6	8	7	6	7	10	9	10	12
1870's	14	14	17	24	30	33	25	37	42	55
1880's	72	76	83	64	66	60	77	77	75	96
1890's	126	149	138	133	135	145	167	166	152	156
1900's	174	190	243	275	320	369	347	455	488	502
1910's	574	604	609	681	728	770	822	919	920	1,037
1920's	1,210	1,294	1,527	2,007	1,951	1,700	2,112	2,469	2,463	2,760
1930's	2,460	2,332	2,145	2,481	2,488	2,723	3,001	3,500	3,324	3,464
1940's	4,107	3,847	3,796	4,125	4,584	4,695	4,749	5,088	5,520	5,046
1950's	5,407	6,158	6,256	6,458	6,342	6,807	7,151	7,170	6,710	7,054
1960's	7,035	7,183	7,332	7,542	7,614	7,804	8,295	8,810	9,096	9,238
1970's	9,637	9,463	9,441	9,208	8,774	8,375	8,132	8,245	8,707	8,552
1980's	8,597	8,572	8,649	8,688	8,879	8,971	8,680	8,349	8,140	7,613
1990's	7,355	7,417	7,171	6,847	6,662	6,560	6,465	6,452	6,252	5,881
2000's	5,822	5,801	5,746	5,681	5,419	5,178	5,102	5,103

Updated on 7/11/2008

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration