U.S. product supplied of crude and petroleum products - a proxy for demand - rose to 19.997 million bpd, the highest since November 2022, EIA data showed. Product supplied of finished motor gasoline rose in February to 8.715 mln bpd, also the highest since November 2022 U.S crude production in Texas fell 0.5% to 5.264 million bpd in February, the lowest since December 2022, while production in North Dakota rose 7.4% to 1.124 million bpd, the highest since December 2021.
Production in New Mexico was little changed at 1.807 million bpd in February. Gross natural gas production in the U.S. Lower 48 states, meanwhile, rose 0.3 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) to a record 112.5 bcfd in February, according to the EIA's monthly 914 production report. That topped the prior all-time high of 112.4 bcfd in November 2022. In top gas producing states, monthly output in February fell 1.9% to 20.0 bcfd in Pennsylvania and 0.6% to 32.1 bcfd in Texas. Output, however, jumped over 7% in both Louisiana and North Dakota. In Louisiana, the third-biggest gas producing state, it jumped to a record 12.6 bcfd in February. Gas production hit a record of 32.3 bcfd in Texas in January 2023 and 21.8 bcfd in Pennsylvania in December 2021. The prior record in Louisiana was 11.8 bcfd in November 2022. (Reporting by Laura Sanicola in Washington and Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by David Gregorio and Sharon Singleton)
