Texas keeps pumping 3 million barrels of crude oil a day

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Crude oil production topped 8.5 million barrels per day, highest since 1986.

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Nicholas Sakelaris

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Texas and North Dakota continue to lead the nation in oil production, producing nearly half the oil in the country.

Texas produced more than 3 million barrels per day in June, or 35 percent of the crude oil in the country. Much of the growth in production comes from the Eagle Ford Shale and Permian Basin.

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The 3 million barrel mark puts Texas on par with many of the world's largest oil producing countries.

North Dakota is producing nearly 1.1 million barrels per day, just three months after that state broke through the 1 million barrel mark.The major production there comes from the Bakken Shale and Three Forks formation.

The U.S. produced 8.5 million barrels per day, the most since 1986.

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