Top quark production at the LHC

Studies of top quark production by the CMS and ATLAS collaborations are presented. The measurements have been performed with data collected at the Large Hadron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s} = 7$ TeV. The inclusive $t\bar{t}$ cross section is measured in the fully hadronic, dilepton and lepton+jets final states. A differential measurement of the $t\bar{t}$ cross section is also described. The cross sections for the t-channel and tW single top production processes are measured, and an upper limit is placed on the s-channel cross section. Standard Model predictions are found to be in agreement with all measurements. Recent results on searches for new physics related to top quark production are summarised.