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Utah Energy
and Mineral Statistics
Utah Energy and Mineral Statistics is a web-based repository for energy
and mineral data for the State of Utah. It contains over 130 tables and
50 figures (in both Excel and PDF formats) in nine different chapters
and is continuously updated as new data becomes available.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for improvement,
please contact Michael Vanden Berg at 801.538.5419 or by email at michaelvandenberg@utah.gov.
Highlights
- The number of oil and gas drilling permits in Utah averaged 1,541 over the last 5 years (Table
3.3), a major increase over the 370 permits averaged throughout the 1990s.
- Utah refineries received record amounts of crude oil in 2006,
with 20.2% coming from Canada (Table
3.15a). Refinery receipts have dropped slightly over the last 2 years with Canadian imports falling to 13.2% of total.
- The value of Utah’s natural gas reached a record high
in 2005, even when adjusted for inflation, at about $2.2 billion
(Table
4.16). The value of natural gas in 2007 dropped to $1.5 billion as production reached an all-time high, but prices fell to only $4.10 per thousand cubic feet.
- Utah’s average price of residential natural gas in 2008
was only $9.00 per thousand cubic feet, the second lowest in the
nation (Table
4.18).
- In 2008, 82% of the electricity generated in Utah was from
coal-burning power plants (Table
5.10a).
- Electricity generation from natural-gas power plants more than doubled between 2006 and 2007, increasing its total share to 16% (Table 5.10a).
- Sales of electricity in Utah increase an average of 4.5% each
year (Table
5.19a).
- Utah's average price of residential electricity in 2008 was only 8.30 cents
per kWh, the tenth lowest in the nation (Table
5.21).
- Utah is one of only four states to produce electricity from
geothermal sources (Table
6.1)
- Table 6.7 in
the Renewable Resources chapter lists all current and proposed
renewable energy facilities in Utah.
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