U.S. Energy Information Administrator Adam Sieminski noted that American oil production increased in the last three months of the year, marking the first quarterly increase since early 2015 when the two-year oil bust was just beginning to sink in.

Among the report’s other highlights:

• Despite increasing gasoline prices, U.S. fuel consumption is expected to reach a record high in 2017 because of a stronger economy and higher employment.

• U.S. natural gas production is expected to rise the next two years, reversing the first annual decline in more than a decade, as natural gas prices rise.

• Natural gas surpassed coal as the primary source of electrical power for the first time ever in 2016, but coal is expected to make a bit of a comeback in 2017 and could retake its leadership position.

• U.S. oil production averaged 8.9 million barrels per day in 2016 and that amount is expected to grow to 9 million daily in 2017 to to 9.3 million barrels a day in 2018.