[Nifster]

And I was not referring to natural gas but oil portion of shale.....

[thackney]

The oil portion of processing is called refining.

We have been expanding our existing refineries fir decades. We currently have significantly more refining capacity than we consume ourselves. We have become a net exporter of refined products because we refine more than we use.

Give me about an hour and I’ll provide links to the data.

[thackney]

Our falling demand combined with our growing refining capacity and resulted in producing more refined product (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, etc) than we actually use. So now we are a next exportor of the balance of refined products.

Click charts for data source