Average breakeven oil price
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69USD per barrel
United States · as of 31 Mar 2026
Average breakeven oil price in United States averaged 69 USD per barrel as of 31 March 2026 (EIA).
- Publisher
- EIA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- Permian
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Oil industry executives responding in March to the Dallas Fed Energy survey reported average breakeven prices of $69/b in the Permian’s Midland Basin and $63/b in the Delaware Basin, the two largest basins in the Permian.
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- APA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2026). United States on track for record crude oil production in 2026. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=68125. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC054GEVGWHB4GWGE1Z
- MLA
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "United States on track for record crude oil production in 2026." 2026, https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=68125. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC054GEVGWHB4GWGE1Z.
- Chicago
- U.S. Energy Information Administration. "United States on track for record crude oil production in 2026." 2026. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=68125. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC054GEVGWHB4GWGE1Z.
- BibTeX
- @misc{eia2026averagegwge1z, author = {{U.S. Energy Information Administration}}, title = {United States on track for record crude oil production in 2026}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC054GEVGWHB4GWGE1Z}, note = {Original source: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=68125. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- U.S. Energy Information Administration · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- United States on track for record crude oil production in 2026
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Permian
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XC054GEVGWHB4GWGE1Z