U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.744 million barrels per day (b/d) last week, down by 226,000 b/d from the previous week, while crude oil exports averaged 4.135 million b/d, down by 333,000 b/d, according to the EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
Over the past four weeks, U.S. crude oil imports averaged about 6.746 million b/d, up by 7.1 percent from the same four-week period last year, and crude oil exports averaged about 4.425 million b/d, up by 5.7 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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