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production  In the last quarter the US produced six million
barrels of conventional and unconventional oil a day, more than
it has done in 15 years, say experts  In 2011, the US registered
the largest increase in oil production of any country outside of
OPEC  The US is seeing a dramatic surge in oil and gas
production and could overtake the world's biggest producers,
Russia and Saudi Arabia, in another decade, a US official said.
"Some of the numbers are eye-popping," Daniel Sullivan,
commissioner in Alaska's department of natural resources, told a
panel of experts at the International Economic Forum of the
Americas in Montreal.  Since 2008, the US added 1.6 million
barrels of additional oil, and in 2011, the US registered the
largest increase in oil production of any country outside of
OPEC, he told hundreds of participants.  These figures compared
to a daily output in March of about 9.923 mill