Because of a technology boom, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts domestic crude oil production will be 7.1 million barrels a day in 2013 about a 10 percent increase over 2012.

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Federal offshore drilling in the Gulf produced about 1.15 million bpd of oil in 2008, about one-third of total domestic crude production.

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