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EIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer

On 4 October 2013 EIA Today in Energy printed that the United States was on course to be the world’s top producer of petroleum and natural-gas hydrocarbons in 2013, a shale-era print under Obama-era all-of-the-above energy weather. In the causal graph this event strengthens Fossil-Fuel Dependence, a driver that strengthens Out-of-School Rate, Primary School Age (global) — a worsening welfare path.

EIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer

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On 4 October 2013 EIA Today in Energy printed that the United States was on course to be the world’s top producer of petroleum and natural-gas hydrocarbons in 2013, a shale-era print under Obama-era all-of-the-above energy weather.

Context

Private drillers, state regulators, and prior leases sat as operators. Neighbouring CPP 2015 is a later climate rule. He did not sit as every Permian operator. Interior still leased. EPA still regulated elsewhere.

CPP 3 August 2015 is a later climate rule. Paris 2016 is a later depositary act. Sequester is a neighbour fiscal file.

A United States president proposes, signs, vetoes, and directs the executive. Congress enacts statutes. The Federal Reserve, states, courts, and later presidents share later series. Office-holding is not authorship of every later outcome. Allegation is not a completed judgment. Legislative achievements require shared congressional attribution. He does not set the federal funds rate, write a state Medicaid waiver by himself, or convert a 2009 oath into a unique 2016 uninsured coefficient. A signature is not unique authorship of a House and Senate text. A troop order is not authorship of every later round. He is not president as of 27 August 2026. Donald Trump is president from 20 January 2025. Joe Biden was president 2021–2025.

Why it matters

The path is fossil-fuel dependence: a completed production-leadership print under all-of-the-above weather.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Barack Obama

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    EIA printed. Private producers drilled. He owned leasing-and-all-of-the-above weather. EPA’s later CPP is a neighbour.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — EIA: U.S. on track to be top oil and gas producerReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.EIA Today in Energy — U.S. expected to be world’s top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2013U.S. Energy Information Administration · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

U.S. Energy Information Administration carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: 4 October 2013 EIA print of U.S. hydrocarbon-production leadership, independently reported.

Not established: that he uniquely fracked every well, or a unique later global price coefficient from that Friday.

Private producers drilled. He owned leasing-and-all-of-the-above weather. EPA’s later CPP is a neighbour.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies EIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer, not a later speech about EIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to EIA printed. Private producers drilled. EPA’s later CPP is a neighbour. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorBarack Obama
  2. contributed toFactEIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Fossil-Fuel Dependence
  4. strengthensIndicatorOut-of-School Rate, Primary School Age (global)

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Factrail. (2026). EIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-oil-2015

https://factrail.ai/facts/us-obama-oil-2015

Accessed 17 October 2026.

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