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Last Update: October 16, 2014 | Next Update: November 20, 2014

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Energy Indicators  
Demography Texas Share of U.S. Period
Population 26.4 million 8.4% 2013  
Civilian Labor Force 13.0 million 8.3% Aug-14  
Economy Texas U.S. Rank Period
Gross Domestic Product $ 1,463.0 billion 2 2012  
Gross Domestic Product for the Manufacturing Sector $ 228,052 million 2 2012  
Per Capita Personal Income $ 43,552 26 2013  
Vehicle Miles Traveled 237,836 million miles 2 2012  
Land in Farms 130.2 million acres 1 2012  
Prices  
Petroleum Texas U.S. Average Period find more
Domestic Crude Oil First Purchase $ 96.58 /barrel $ 96.68 /barrel Jul-14  
Natural Gas Texas U.S. Average Period find more
City Gate $ 5.37 /thousand cu ft $ 5.88 /thousand cu ft Jul-14 find more
Residential $ 20.02 /thousand cu ft $ 17.13 /thousand cu ft Jul-14 find more
Coal Texas U.S. Average Period find more
Average Sales Price $ 19.09 /short ton $ 39.95 /short ton 2012  
Delivered to Electric Power Sector $ 2.01 /million Btu $ 2.36 /million Btu Jul-14  
Electricity Texas U.S. Average Period find more
Residential 12.00 cents/kWh 13.05 cents/kWh Jul-14 find more
Commercial 8.20 cents/kWh 11.16 cents/kWh Jul-14 find more
Industrial 6.52 cents/kWh 7.49 cents/kWh Jul-14 find more
Reserves & Supply  
Reserves Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Crude Oil 9,614 million barrels 31.5% 2012 find more
Dry Natural Gas 86,924 billion cu ft 28.2% 2012 find more
Expected Future Production of Natural Gas Plant Liquids 4,727 million barrels 43.9% 2012 find more
Recoverable Coal at Producing Mines 751 million short tons 4.0% 2012 find more
Rotary Rigs & Wells Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Rotary Rigs in Operation 835 rigs 47.4% 2013  
Natural Gas Producing Wells 96,617 wells 20.0% 2012 find more
Production Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Total Energy 14,201 trillion Btu 18.0% 2012 find more
Crude Oil 96,168 thousand barrels 36.3% Jul-14 find more
Natural Gas - Marketed 7,475,495 million cu ft 29.5% 2012 find more
Coal 44,178 thousand short tons 4.3% 2012 find more
Capacity Texas Share of U.S. Period
Crude Oil Refinery Capacity (as of Jan. 1) 5,174,209 barrels/calendar day 28.9% 2014  
Electric Power Industry Net Summer Capacity 111,359 MW 10.5% Jul-14  
Net Electricity Generation Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Total Net Electricity Generation 43,349 thousand MWh 11.3% Jul-14  
Net Electricity Generation (share of total) Texas U.S. Average Period
Petroleum-Fired * 0.3 % Jul-14 find more
Natural Gas-Fired 49.0 % 29.6 % Jul-14 find more
Coal-Fired 35.0 % 39.0 % Jul-14 find more
Nuclear 8.6 % 18.7 % Jul-14 find more
Hydroelectric 0.1 % 6.3 % Jul-14 find more
Other Renewables 6.7 % 5.4 % Jul-14  
Stocks Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Motor Gasoline (Excludes Pipelines) 4,518 thousand barrels 22.4% Jul-14  
Distillate Fuel Oil (Excludes Pipelines) 16,354 thousand barrels 17.2% Jul-14 find more
Natural Gas in Underground Storage 549,608 million cu ft 8.1% Jul-14 find more
Petroleum Stocks at Electric Power Producers 1,196 thousand barrels 4.3% Jul-14 find more
Coal Stocks at Electric Power Producers 10,499 thousand tons 8.4% Jul-14 find more
Production Facilities Texas
Major Coal Mines Jewett Mine/Texas Westmoreland Coal Co., Three Oaks/Luminant Mining Co. LLC, Beckville Strip/Luminant Mining Co. LLC, Kosse Strip/Luminant Mining Co. LLC, South Hallsville No. 1 Mine/The Sabine Mining Co. find more
Petroleum Refineries Calumet Lubricants (San Antonio), Lazarus Energy (Nixon), Alon USA Energy (Big Spring), BP Products North America (Texas City), Citgo Refining & Chemical (Corpus Christi), Phillips 66 Company (Sweeny), Deer Park Refining (Deer Park), Delek Refining (Tyler), Equistar Chemicals (Channelview), Exxon Mobil Refining & Supply (Baytown), Exxon Mobil Refining & Supply (Beaumont), Flint Hills Resources (Corpus Christi), Houston Refining (Houston), Marathon Petroleum (Texas City), Motiva Enterprises (Port Arthur), Pasadena Refining (Pasadena), Premcor Refining (Port Arthur), South Hampton Resources (Silsbee), Total Petrochemicals & Refining (Port Arthur), Trigeant (Corpus Christi), Valero (Sunray), Valero (Three Rivers), Valero (Corpus Christi), Valero (Houston), Valero (Texas City), Western Refining (El Paso), WRB Refining (Borger) find more
Major Non-Nuclear Electricity Generating Plants W A Parish (NRG Texas Power LLC) ; Oak Grove (TXU Generation Co LP) ; Martin Lake (TXU Generation Co LP) ; Monticello (TXU Generation Co LP) ; Tradinghouse (Luminant Generation Company LLC)  
Nuclear Power Plants South Texas Project (STP Nuclear Operating Co), Comanche Peak (TXU Generation Co LP) find more
Distribution & Marketing  
Distribution Centers Texas
Petroleum Ports Houston, Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, Texas City, Freeport, Beaumont, Brownsville, Galveston, Matagorda Port Lv Pt Com, Victoria, Aransas Pass. find more
Natural Gas Market Centers Agua Dulce Hub (Production Center), Carthage Hub (Production Hub), Katy (DCP) Hub (Production Hub), Katy Storage Center (Storage Hub), Moss Bluff Hub (Storage Hub), Waha (DCP\Atmos) Hub (Production Hub), Waha (EPGT) Texas Hub (Production Hub).  
Major Pipelines Texas find more
Crude Oil Exxon-Mobil, Magellan, Nustar, Plains Pipeline, Shell, Sunoco, Phillips 66 Pipeline, Centurion Pipeline, Koch Pipeline, Enterprise  
Petroleum Product Enterprise, Explorer Pipeline, Marathon Pipeline, Midstream Partners, Phillips 66 Pipeline, Enbridge, Nustar, Kinder Morgan, Plains All American Pipeline, Colonial Pipeline  
Natural Gas Liquids Chevron, Conoco Phillips, Enterprise Products, Engery Transfer, ONEOK  
Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines ANR Pipeline Co., Centerpoint Energy Gas Transmission Co., Colorado Interstate Gas, El Paso Natural Gas Co., Enbridge Pipelines (East Texas), Florida Gas Transmission Co., Gulf South Pipeline Co., KM Interstate Gas Co., Mississippi River Transmission Corp., Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Northernal Natural Gas Co., Oneok Westek Pipeline Co., Oneok Gas Transportation Systems, Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co., Southern Natural Gas Co., Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Co., Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., Texas Gas Transmission Co., Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co., Transok Inc., Transwestern Pipeline Co., Trunkline Gas Co.  
Fueling Stations Texas Share of U.S. Period
Motor Gasoline 10,296 stations 9.3% 2011  
Liquefied Petroleum Gases 471 stations 17.0% 2013  
Compressed Natural Gas 52 stations 4.4% 2013  
Ethanol 80 stations 3.1% 2013  
Other Alternative Fuels 1,337 stations 8.3% 2013  
Consumption & Expenditures  
Summary Texas U.S. Rank Period
Total Consumption 12,282 trillion Btu 1 2012 find more
Total Consumption per Capita 471 million Btu 5 2012 find more
Total Expenditures $ 155,921 million 1 2012 find more
Total Expenditures per Capita $ 5,983 5 2012 find more
by End-Use Sector Texas Share of U.S. Period
Consumption
    »  Residential 1,599 trillion Btu 8.0% 2012 find more
    »  Commercial 1,554 trillion Btu 9.0% 2012 find more
    »  Industrial 6,258 trillion Btu 20.2% 2012 find more
    »  Transportation 2,871 trillion Btu 10.8% 2012 find more
Expenditures
    »  Residential $ 17,390 million 7.4% 2012 find more
    »  Commercial $ 12,740 million 7.4% 2012 find more
    »  Industrial $ 54,297 million 24.1% 2012 find more
    »  Transportation $ 71,494 million 9.9% 2012 find more
by Source Texas Share of U.S. Period
Consumption
    »  Petroleum 1,280.4 million barrels 18.9% 2012 find more
    »  Natural Gas 3,890.8 billion cu ft 15.2% 2012 find more
    »  Coal 98.3 million short tons 11.1% 2012 find more
Expenditures
    »  Petroleum $ 118,352 million 13.4% 2012 find more
    »  Natural Gas $ 11,264 million 8.5% 2012 find more
    »  Coal $ 2,865 million 6.3% 2012 find more
Consumption for Electricity Generation Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Petroleum 9 thousand barrels 0.5% Jul-14 find more
Natural Gas 161,369 million cu ft 18.5% Jul-14 find more
Coal 10,534 thousand short tons 12.9% Jul-14 find more
Energy Source Used for Home Heating (share of households) Texas U.S. Average Period
Natural Gas 36.4 % 48.3 % 2013  
Fuel Oil 0.1 % 5.5 % 2013  
Electricity 59.1 % 37.4 % 2013  
Liquefied Petroleum Gases 3.2 % 4.8 % 2013  
Other/None 1.1 % 3.9 % 2013  
Environment  
Special Programs Texas find more
Clean Cities Coalitions Alamo Area (San Antonio), Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston/Galveston, Lone Star Clean Fuels Alliance (Central Texas)  
Alternative Fuels Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Alternative Fueled Vehicles in Use 118,913 vehicles 10.0% 2011 find more
Ethanol Plant Operating Capacity 205 million gal/year 1.5% 2014 find more
Ethanol Consumption 27,946 thousand barrels 9.1% 2012 find more
Total Emissions Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Carbon Dioxide 656.0 million metric tons 12.2% 2011  
Electric Power Industry Emissions Texas Share of U.S. Period find more
Carbon Dioxide 253,689,271 metric tons 11.8% 2012  
Sulfur Dioxide 349,801 metric tons 9.4% 2012  
Nitrogen Oxide 193,567 metric tons 9.0% 2012  

Notes & Sources

-- = No data reported.
*  = Value is less than half of the smallest unit of measure (e.g., for values with no decimals, the smallest unit is 1 then values under 0.5 are shown as *.)
NA = Not available.
NM = Not meaningful due to large relative standard error or excessive percentage change.
W = Withheld to avoid disclosure of individual company data.
Note: Small differences between source data and values displayed here may be due to independent rounding.
Note: Total net electricity generation includes net generation from petroleum coke, pumped storage hydroelectric, other gases, and other energy sources, which are not shown separately.