U.S. crude oil imports averaged 7.229 million barrels per day (b/d) last week, up by 711,000 b/d from the previous week, while crude oil exports averaged 4.012 million b/d, down by 1.055 million b/d, according to the EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Over the past four weeks, U.S. crude oil imports averaged about 7.025 million b/d, up by 8.2 percent from the same period last year; crude oil exports averaged about 4.275 million b/d, up by 13 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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