U.S. crude oil production increased by 31,000 bbl/d in July to 11.307 million bbl/d, up from a revised 11.276 million bbl/d in June, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a monthly report.
Crude output was lifted by production gains in Texas and in the Gulf of Mexico. Offshore production in the Gulf of Mexico rose 56,000 bbl/d in July, the report said.
Oil production in Texas rose by 28,000 bbl/d in the month, the report said. Production in the second-largest oil-producing state, North Dakota, fell 9,000 bbl/d from a month earlier.
Gasoline demand was 9.313 million bbl/d in the month, while demand for diesel and other distillate fuels was 3.658 million bbl/d, according to the report.
Meanwhile, monthly gross natural gas production in the U.S. Lower 48 states rose 500 MMcf/d in July to a 16-month high of 104.5 Bcf/d, the EIA said in its monthly 914 production report.
That was the second month of increases in a row.
Gross gas output peaked at 107.4 Bcf/d in November 2019.
In top gas producing states, output rose 0.9% in Texas to 29.3 Bcf/d in July and slipped 0.3% in Pennsylvania to 20.7 Bcf/d.
Production peaked at 30.3 Bcf/d in Texas in January 2020 and 21.2 Bcf/d in Pennsylvania in January 2021.
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