Illinois year-over-year crude oil production increased slightly in 2024, totaling 7,212,196 barrels, according to data collected from first-purchaser reports by the Illinois Petroleum Resources Board. Click here to download IPRB’s annual Illinois oil production report.

Production was up .39 percent from 2023 levels, the first year-over-year oil production increase in the state since 2018.

White County enjoyed the largest increase in production of the state’s 45 oil-producing counties, totaling 2,201,158 barrels of production, a whopping 261,000-barrel increase from its 2023 totals. White County saw its highest production since 2020 and accounted for more than 30 percent of the state’s overall production.

Sangamon County saw the biggest year-over-year production increase in percentage terms, more than doubling its 2023 production with 50,186 barrels of production.

Jefferson (+22,900 barrels), Edwards (+7,700 barrels), Monroe (+2,500 barrels), Saline (+600 barrels) and Schuyler (+500 barrels) also saw year-over-year production increases from 2023 totals.

The state’s top-15 producing counties – White, Marion, Crawford, Wabash, Fayette, Franklin, Lawrence, Clay, Hamilton, Wayne, Richland, Clark, Jasper, Jefferson and Gallatin – collectively produced 90 percent of the state’s oil in 2023. All 15 of those counties – as well as Edwards, Brown and Effingham counties – have passed Resolutions of Support for the Illinois oil production industry.

Illinois has totaled more than 3.77 billion barrels of oil production since commercial production began in 1905.