Lol.. the headline should open people's eyes.. but.. it's true.

Robert Rapiers article details the data.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/The-US-Just-Recorded-Its-Highest-Oil-Production-Month-In-History.amp.html

Rapier is noted for his support of the Biden administration.. so be warned.. but the numbers don't lie.

"The fact is that oil production has been steadily rising since the Covid-19 crash. In each of President Biden's first two years in office, production grew during the year. It will do so again this year.

By the beginning of 2023, it looked like the U.S. could set a new annual production record during the year. In fact, I made that one of my 2023 energy predictions in January.

I was less sure that the previous monthly production record - 13.0 million barrels per day (bpd) set in November 2019 - would be broken. We started 2023 at 12.6 million bpd, and by May that was only up to 12.7 million bpd. But high oil prices during the summer resulted in a production surge, and with the recent official release of the August monthly numbers, a new record was set at 13.05 million bpd.

You can find oil production numbers at the Energy Information Administration (EIA) in multiple places. The U.S. Field Production of Crude Oil shows monthly averages, but they are always a couple of months behind. For example, as I write this on 11/8/23, August is the most recent month that is posted.

But you can find weekly production numbers in the EIA's Petroleum Status Report that is published every Wednesday. There is a table from that report called U.S. Petroleum Balance Sheet, and it shows the status of U.S. oil production, inventories, imports, etc. for the previous week.
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Note that each of the two most recent weeks, as well as the average for the past four weeks - covering nearly the whole of October - was 13.2 million bpd. That is well above the recently set monthly record from August 2023, as well as the previous record of 13.0 million bpd from November 2019.

Further, the previous annual record, set in 2019, was 12.3 million bpd. Every monthly production average this year has been above that level. With weekly production currently running at 13.2 million bpd, at this point, it's almost a foregone conclusion that 2023 will set a new annual oil production record. The previous monthly record has fallen, and (as I predicted in January) the annual record will fall as well.

None of this should take away from the fact that the Biden Administration has made many decisions that were opposed by the oil industry. But I have always maintained that a president's impact on oil production (and gasoline prices) is greatly overrated. Yes, they can have an impact, but it's almost always long-term. The decisions President Biden is making now can impact oil production, but not for several years.

But ultimately, the biggest factor impacting oil production is the price of oil. Nevertheless, headed into an election year it's going to be more challenging to run against Biden's energy policies, when he can point to all-time high oil production and say "I must be doing something right."