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This shale oil production has helped to catapult the United States into the top crude oil producer in the world at 12.6 million bpd as of the first week of June, even ahead of the titans of oil industry old—
Russia, whose production hit 10.87 million bpd that same week;
and Saudi Arabia, whose production hit 9.690 million bpd according to the last official OPEC MOMR.