this really is such an underplayed story. No one - not Russia, not Venezuela, not Saudi Arabia - NO ONE is producing more oil than the US.
Let me see if I can dig that up, it was actually a site with lots of data and graphs you could play with
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https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/#/?f=M&start=19...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38606318
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Yup, imports down, both production and exports way up
I wonder how much of this is the US shipping natural gas to the EU and other countries