August 7, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report Gross inputs to U.S. refineries exceeded 17 million barrels per day (b/d) in each of the past four weeks, a level not previously reached since EIA began publishing weekly data in 1990. The rolling four-week average of U.S. gross refinery inputs has been […]
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July 30, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Supply Monthly, Weekly Petroleum Status Report, Drilling Productivity Report, Short-Term Energy Outlook EIA publishes several reports covering current crude oil and natural gas production conditions and how recent trends may affect the near-term outlook for the oil and gas industry. Each EIA product is distinct in […]
July 28, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, , July 2015 The productivity of natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale and the neighboring Utica Shale is steadily increasing because of ongoing improvements in precision and efficiency of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing occurring in those regions. Since January 2012, natural gas production in the […]
July 24, 2015 Source: U.S. Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory Note: Standard industrial electrolyzer (left) and dedicated hydrogen storage (right) will be engaged in power-to-gas conversion research. Commercial-grade systems will be significantly larger. Large-scale electricity storage technologies are currently limited in use, with pumped hydroelectric storage accounting for more than 98% of total […]
ZIMBABWE still owes Zambia US$ 114 million in interest accrued in connection with the defunct Central Africa Power Cooperation (CAPCO) which was jointly owned. Recently, the Government of Zimbabwe cleared the principal debt amounting to US$ 70 million owed to Zambia. Mines, Energy and Water Development Minister Christopher Yaluma said that Zimbabwe still owed Zambia […]
July 17, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: Outage data reflect only nuclear units that have operated or were intended to operate in the past year. As the country reaches the summer peak electricity demand season, nearly all U.S. nuclear generators have returned from refueling outages. Total outages were less than 1.5 gigawatts (GW) […]
July 2, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, While the energy history of the United States is one of significant change, three fossil fuel sources—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—have made up at least 80% of total U.S. energy consumption for more than 100 years. Recent increases in the domestic production of petroleum liquids and natural […]
June 25, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2015 Increased refinery runs—based on increases in both capacity and utilization—have helped accommodate increases in U.S. crude oil production. The United States’ capacity to refine crude oil into petroleum products—measured as operable atmospheric crude distillation unit (CDU) capacity—increased by 0.2% in 2014, reaching 18.0 million barrels per […]
June 22, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, In recent years, higher domestic production of light, tight crude oil has regions. One of the key characteristics of crude oil is its density, measured by . Less-dense liquids have higher API gravities. Crude oils with API gravities of 35 or above are considered light; 27 to […]
June 12, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Alaska’s crude oil production has declined from 1.8 million barrels per day (MMb/d) in 1991 to 0.5 MMb/d in 2014, and it is expected to continue declining through 2040. Almost 75% of Alaska’s crude oil production from 1990 to 2012 was from the Prudhoe Bay […]
June 4, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. crude oil production has grown rapidly in recent years, primarily from light, sweet crude () from tight resource formations. Roughly 90% of the nearly 3.0 million barrel per day (b/d) growth in production from 2011 to 2014 consisted of light, sweet grades, meaning they have an […]
May 28, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: Sector shares represent the renewable share of primary energy consumed in the sector. Renewable energy accounted for 9.8% of total domestic energy consumption in 2014. This marks the highest renewable energy share since the 1930s, when wood was a much larger contributor to domestic energy supply. […]
May 22, 2015 Source: Provided by On May 18, the U.S. average retail price for gasoline was $ 2.74 per gallon ($ /gal), or 92¢ per gallon (¢/gal) lower than at the same time last year. This is the lowest average price heading into the Memorial Day weekend—the traditional —since 2009. Lower gasoline prices reflect […]
May 15, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2015 Although U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with electricity generation have fallen from the 2005 level, they are projected to increase in the coming decades, based on analysis in EIA’s (AEO2015) that reflects current laws and regulations, and therefore does not include proposed […]
May 7, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, based on Turner, Mason & Company In response to multiple requests over the past years, EIA is developing a series of analyses that address the implications of current limitations on crude oil exports for prices, including both world and domestic crude oil and petroleum product prices, and […]
