At the Ministry of Energy of the United States believe that they can overtake Russia in terms of oil production in the next year

The United States can regain leadership of next year in world oil production, which it lost in the USSR in the mid-1970s. With this forecast, as reported by CBS on Friday , the Department of Information of the US Department of Energy

According to experts of the agency, in 2019 the production level in the country will increase to 11.8 million barrels per day .

This will mean that the United States will once again become the world leader in oil production.

Linda Capuano

Head of Department US Department of Energy

According to the Ministry of Energy, Russia produced more than 10.3 million barrels of oil a day, Saudi Arabia I Arabia – just under 10 million barrels, the United States – nearly 9.4 million barrels. In February of this year, the United States bypbaded Saudi Arabia and, in June, extracted about 10.9 million barrels a day. According to Capuano, the average production level will be 10.8 million barrels per day by the end of the year.

"The United States had been at the top of oil production for decades in the 20th century, and Saudi Arabia did the same in 1976. In the late 1970s, the Soviet Union was producing third of oil more than in the United States and, in the late 1980s, it was twice as large, "notes CBS

. Oil. OPEC members and several other countries , including Russia, have already agreed last month to ease restrictions on oil production, which has led to an increase in the price of black gold. was mainly due to the improvement of technology for the development of oil shale. Large oil shale deposits are located in the states of Texas, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming in parts of Nebraska. In addition, the bill on tax reform, signed on December 22 by President Donald Trump, opens the door to developing oil fields in the Arctic National Reserve in Alaska.