The US oil product has been set for the first annual decrease since the epidemic

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US oil production will decrease next year for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to government expectations that would question the “energy hegemony” agenda in Donald Trump.

The Energy Information Administration, a section of the Energy Department, said on Tuesday that US oil production will decrease from a record level of 13.5 million barrels per day to about 13.3 million barrels by the end of next year, such as Oil prices fell The child’s shame.

The environmental impact assessment said in a monthly report published on Tuesday: “With fewer active drilling platforms, we expect that American operators will dig and complete a number of wells until 2026.” She said the active excavators “fell much more” than what was expected in a previous report.

The official official expectations come a few months after Trump’s re -election after a presidential campaign in which he pledged to “launch” American drilling, enhance more oil production and reduce energy prices.

to rise Oil rock production In the past two decades, the United States has made the largest oil and gas producer in the world, raising global commodity markets with the local industry feeding with a continuous flow of cheap energy.

The annual production last decreased in 2021, during the Covid-19 pandemic in Trump’s first state, but it recovered with the high oil prices during the management of Joe Biden.

The new government expectations, which are frequented by the forecasts of rock executives, emphasize the pressure facing the sector as a high supply from OPEC+ Cartel And anxiety about the impact of Trump’s commercial wars on the global economy drives crude prices.

Trump’s tariff on steel and aluminum imports also sparked steel costs and other important inputs in the oil sector, which presses the margins of drilling.

The company of Oil Said, the services of Baker Hughes, said that the number of oil platforms operating in the United States decreased to 442, a decrease in nine in one week, and 50 lower than the previous year.

West Texas Interidia, the American oil standard, settled at $ 64.98 a barrel on Tuesday, a decrease of 17 percent since the rise of this year – and less than the price that many rock drivers need to break. The environmental impact assessment said that international oil prices will decrease to less than $ 60 in 2026.

“The current administration has caused a lot of chaos. I am really concerned that there is no plan,” Will Vanlo, head of the quantitative Capital company, one of the largest investors at Shell Patch, told the Houston Energy Company last week.

Some analysts expect the oil output in the United States to decrease more severely in the coming months. The total production may decrease by 640,000 barrels from mid-2015 to the end of next year-a greater decrease than the total produced by some OPEC countries.