U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.750 million barrels per day (b/d) last week, up by 233,000 b/d from the previous week, while crude oil exports averaged 4.121 million b/d, up by 350,000 b/d, according to the EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Over the past four weeks, U.S. crude oil imports averaged about 6.652 million b/d, up by 7.6 percent from the same four-week period last year; crude oil exports averaged about 4.247 million b/d, down by 0.4 percent, according to the report.
The United States has been one of the world's important oil producers in the past years with the help of its shale oil production growth.
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