Heidi Kirsc

U.S. crude production will surge to a 45-year high next year, lowering prices and reducing the need for imports, government forecasters said. U.S. Energy Information Administration raised its estimate of 2015 output by 250,000 barrels a day to 9.53 million, the most since 1970. The agency forecast output of 8.53 million barrels a day this year, up from 7.45 million in 2013.

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