Category: Industry News
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U.S. natural gas production and consumption increase in nearly all AEO2018 cases
EIAs Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) projects that U.S. dry natural gas production will increase through 2050 across a wide…
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Natural gas inventories end heating season at the lowest level since 2014
Working natural gas in storage in the United States as of March 31, 2018, the end of the 2017-2018 heating…
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Summer gasoline prices expected to be highest in four years
EIA forecasts that drivers in the United States will pay an average of $2.74 per gallon (gal) this summer for…
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U.S. Gulf of Mexico crude oil production to continue at record highs through 2019
U.S. crude oil production in the Federal Gulf of Mexico (GOM) increased slightly in 2017, reaching 1.65 million b/d, the…
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By some measures, U.S. natural gas production set a record in 2017
Two out of three of EIA’s measures of natural gas production in the United States set records in 2017. U.S….
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U.S. crude oil production growth projected to be led by light, sweet crude oil
Recent growth in U.S. crude oil production has been primarily light, sweet crude oil, defined as having an API gravity…
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About 7% of fossil fuels are consumed for non-combustion use in the United States
While most fossil fuels in the United States are burned, or combusted, to produce heat and power, EIA estimates that…
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Average frequency and duration of electric distribution outages vary by states
Interruptions in electricity service vary by frequency and duration across the many electric distribution systems that serve about 145 million…
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U.S. production of crude oil grew 5% in 2017, likely leading to record 2018 production
Annual average U.S. crude oil production reached 9.3 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2017, an increase of 464,000 b/d…
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In 2017, U.S. electricity sales fell by the greatest amount since the recession
U.S. retail electricity sales fell by 80 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2017, the largest drop since the economic recession in…