据路透社6月8日华盛顿报道，美国能源情报署（EIA）8日表示，北达科他州和德克萨斯州石油产量的大幅增加帮助把美国今年第一季度的原油日产量推高到了600万桶以上，美国第一季度的原油日产量在过去的14年里第一次突破600万桶大关。
EIA说，美国上次原油日产量超过600万桶是在1998年第4季度。
导致美国去年10月到今年3月原油产量增加大约6%的主要原因是北达科他州和德克萨斯州以及位于墨西哥湾的联邦租借区的原油产量激增。
据悉，包括水力压裂和水平钻井在内的先进方法的更广泛使用，使得能源公司在北达科他州和德克萨斯州获得了巨大的新的原油供应。
（李 峻 编译）
原文如下：
US quarterly oil output hits highest level in 14 yrs
WASHINGTON, June 8 (Reuters) - The oil boom in North Dakota and Texas has helped push U.S. quarterly crude output over 6 million barrels per day for the first time in 14 years, the government said on Friday.
U.S. oil production hit the mark during the first quarter of 2012, the Energy Information Administration said. The last time U.S. quarterly oil production was above 6 million bpd was during October-December 1998.
"The roughly six percent growth in U.S. oil production from October 2011 through March 2012 is largely the result of increases in oil output in North Dakota, Texas," and federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico, the EIA said.
Greater use of methods including hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and horizontal drilling have given energy companies access to vast new supplies of crude oil in North Dakota and Texas.
地址：北京市海淀区增光路55号紫玉写字楼13层(100037)
