US to reclaim top oil producer title

The U.S. is on pace to leapfrog Saudi Arabia and Russia and reclaim the title of the world’s biggest oil producer for the first time since the 1970s.The latest forecast from the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that U.S. output will grow next year to 11.8 million barrels a day.“If the forecast holds, that would make the U.S. the world’s leading producer of crude,” said Linda Capuano, who heads the agency, a part of the Energy […]