Tight oil production: Total (Mb/d) - United States - EIA STEO - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: Tight oil production in the US (EIA STEO)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, tight oil production was 9.04 million barrels per day in October 2025, unchanged with respect to September 2025.
Sample. There are 310 records overall in the monthly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time stretching from January 2000 to October 2025.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: extraction reached its minimum of 0.30 Mb/d in July 2002; it hit a peak of 9.21 in November 2024; it had an average value of 3.48.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Million barrels per day (Mb/d) |
|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 8.964 |
| 2025-09-30 | 9.04 |
| 2025-10-31 | 9.04 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Tight oil production: Total |
| Country or region | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Million barrels per day (Mb/d) |
| Source | U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) |
| Source type | Government Agency |
| Data licence | Public domain |
| Measure type | Level |