Weighing up the prospects for US oil production

Higher prices and a backlog of uncompleted wells should ensure that US crude oil production edges up slowly over the next couple of years. But with many of the challenges facing the sector still lurking in the background, we remain doubtful that production will ever fully return to pre-pandemic levels.

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