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U.S. crude oil output hit a record 13.934 million barrels per day in April, according to data released Tuesday by US EIA.

U.S. crude production reaches record 13.934 million b/d in April

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U.S. field production of crude oil reached a record 13.934 million barrels per day in April, according to data released Tuesday by U.S. Energy Information Administration. The record output surpassed the 13.718 million b/d produced in March as producers responded to the oil price increase triggered by the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Oilprice.com said, “While oil prices have since retreated as exports from the Persian Gulf gradually resume, April’s data capture the industry’s response when crude briefly flirted with $120 per barrel.”

According to EIA data, the previous record was 13.864 million b/d in October 2025. The production totals first topped 10 million b/d in November 2017, 11 million b/d in August 2018, 12 million b/d in April 2019 and 13 million b/d in September 2023.

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Source: PB Oil & Gas

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The Texas crude WTI Midland’s inclusion in Dated Brent is the most significant overhaul of the measure in decades.

US crude sets world’s most important oil benchmark for first time

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U.S. oil is already having a profound impact on the world’s most important oil benchmark, effectively setting the price just after its inclusion in the measure.

WTI Midland — produced in the West Texas shales — joined the Dated Brent benchmark on Tuesday, in an effort to revamp a gauge that is used to set the price of more than two-thirds of the world’s crude. So far, that integration has proved successful.

bp Plc has been offering the grade for early June at a low level on a pricing window run by S&P Global Commodity Insights, better known by traders as Platts. As prices of the five other grades that comprise the benchmark were much higher, WTI Midland has essentially served as the key price maker.

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Source: Oil & Gas 360

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