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

Date: 2013

## The fact

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](/people/barack-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](/people/mig-donald-trump) is president from 20 January 2025. [Joe Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) was president 2021–2025.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

The path is [fossil-fuel dependence](/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence): a completed production-leadership print under all-of-the-above weather.

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. EIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer on 2013-10-04 is not a licence to treat every later U.S. Energy Information Administration communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average EIA prints the United States on course as top petroleum and natural-gas producer into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to EIA printed. Private producers drilled. He owned leasing-and-all-of-the-above weather. EPA’s later CPP is a neighbour. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Barack Obama: https://factrail.ai/people/barack-obama

## Drivers

- Fossil-Fuel Dependence: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fossil-fuel-dependence
- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-usa-eia-idUSBRE9930XJ20131004
- https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=13251

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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