U.S. oil production in January likely averaged a new record of 10.2 million barrels a day, the Energy Department estimated Tuesday.

The country is churning out both crude oil and natural gas at record levels currently, and production levels are projected to keep growing at least through 2019, making the United States the world's leader in oil production. The U.S. already leads in natural gas output.

Led by West Texas' booming Permian, U.S. crude production is expected to average 10.6 million barrels a day in 2018 and surge to 11.2 million barrels daily in 2019.

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The U.S. topped the 10 million barrels a day threshold in November for the first time since 1970. But that was only a temporary high mark decades ago because the 1970 record average 9.6 million barrels a day for the full year.

Meanwhile, natural gas production is expected to average a record of 80.3 billion cubic feet a day this year, well up from 73.6 billion last year. Gas production is expected to hit nearly 83 billion cubic feet daily in 2019.

After making steps to reduce the nation's carbon dioxide emissions, these production growth expectations also mean the U.S.'s carbon emissions are expected to grow by 1.8 percent this year and another 0.4 percent in 2019.

U.S. coal production rose last year, but it's projected to dip by 2 percent in 2018.