Oklahoma field production of crude oil set record highs in 2019 riding on an oil boom that started roughly a decade ago.
While 2015 saw a slight decline, production has risen every year, year-over-year, since 2010.
The Independent Statistics & Analysis of the U.S. Energy Information Administration records include crude oil production for Oklahoma back to 1981.
While field production of crude was near 150 million barrels annually in the mid 1980s, beginning in 1985 production dropped year over year until a plateau around 61 million barrels in 2005.
Production slowly rose, and by 2011, production was seeing gains of 20 million barrels annually.
By 2015 production was back above 150 million barrels, eclipsing 200 million in 2018 and 212 million in 2019.
Does this mean we suddenly found more oil? Not necessarily: new technologies and techniques made previously cost-ineffective areas become cost effective as the United States as a whole becomes more energy independent since the recession — achieving the status as a net exporter of crude oil in 2019.