U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.376 million barrels per day (b/d) last week, up by 81,000 b/d from the previous week, while crude oil exports averaged 4.819 million b/d, up by 248,000 b/d from the previous week, according to the Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Over the past four weeks, crude oil imports averaged about 6.502 million b/d, up by 8.1 percent from the same four-week period last year.
During the same period, crude oil exports averaged about 4.339 million b/d, up by 25.2 percent year on year.
The United States has been one of the world's important oil producers in past years with the help of its shale oil production growth.
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