I didn't reference CNN, the link I posted was from wusa9.com.
Thanks for posting this chart, which clearly shows that the drop in oil production occurred during the previous administration not the current one which didn't take office until Jan 2021. However as I previously pointed out the level of production has next to nothing to do with who was in the Oval office. The drop that your chart illustrates was due to a sever drop in demand during COVID, not then President Trump. Oil companies took a beating on price during that time as there was a world glut. And now oil companies are understandably very cautious about ramping up production to pre COVID levels again.
It is true that Bid stopped new federal land leases but that's not really why oil production levels dropped.
This article from Bloombergs is pretty fair in it's analysis and explains what Biden did and how the oil companies are dealing with production in the changing world markets. From the article:
Oil and gas companies are fully able to drill using roughly 9,000 already-approved drilling permits on federal lands in addition to obtaining permits for undeveloped oil and gas leases on 12.3 million acres of federal land nationwide, Interior communications director Melissa Schwartz said Monday.
High oil prices resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine aren’t expected to prompt the Biden administration to abandon its climate policy and turn to federal oil and gas leasing to bring more crude to the U.S. market, legal experts say.
news.bloomberglaw.com
The fact still remains were are still a net exporter of oil.