U.S. States
Notes & Sources (Maps)
| Map Element | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1002 Area (AK) | A 1.5-million-acre coastal section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an important wildlife habitat with potentially enormous oil and gas resources. | U.S. Geological Survey.Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area,
Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis. Last Modified: December 14, 2005. |
| Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (AK) | Established by the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, of which a small portion is the 1002 Area. | U.S. Geological Survey.Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1002 Area,
Petroleum Assessment, 1998, Including Economic Analysis. Last Modified: December 14, 2005. |
| Biomass Energy Potential | Biomass resources available in the United States with 50 metric tons or greater per square kilometer per year, normalized by County. | U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Dynamic Maps,
GIS Data, & Analysis Tools. Last Modified: April 22, 2009. |
| Coal Mines | Mines that produced more than 4 million short tons of coal in 2009. | EIA, Major U.S. Coal Mines, Table 9. Major U.S. Coal Mines, 2009. Released: October 1, 2010. |
| Counties, States, Canada, and Mexico | All U.S. Counties and States, Canada, and Mexico. | Ventyx, Velocity Suite. Released: January 2009. |
| Electric Generating Plants | Electricity plants with net summer capacity of 100 megawatts or greater. | EIA, Annual Electric Generator Report
(Data for 2007). Released: February 2009. Ventyx, Velocity Suite. Released: January 2009. |
| Electric Generating Plants - U.S. Territories | American Samoa | American Samoa Power Authority. |
| Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands | Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, Power Generation Division, February 22, 2005. Commonwealth Utilities Corporation, Request for Proposals CUC - RFP 07-015, Appendix G – Power Distribution One-Line Diagrams. Undated. U.S. Department of the Interior, United States of America Insular Areas Energy Assessment Report: An Update of the 1982 Territorial Energy Assessment, 2006, Chapter 6. Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI), pp 151-195. |
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| Guam | Guam Power Authority. EIA, Geographic Information System (GasTran). Town and village tables. Last Modified: October 2006. Unpublished. Google Map by town and country name. Environmental Protection Agency, Envirofacts Data Warehouse. |
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| Puerto Rico | Ventyx, Velocity Suite. Released: January 2009. |
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| U.S. Virgin Islands | U.S. Department of the Interior, United States of America Insular Areas Energy Assessment Report: An Update of the 1982 Territorial Energy Assessment, 2006, Chapter 4. U.S. Virgin Islands. pp 59-107. | |
| Electric Transmission Lines | Electric lines with voltage of 345 kV or more. | Ventyx, Velocity Suite. Released: January 2009. |
| Geothermal Energy Potential | Areas with geothermal surface heat flow of 80 milliwatts per square meter, which is suitable for generating electricity. | Idaho National Laboratory, State Geothermal Resource Maps. U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Geothermal Technologies Program. Last Modified: October 23, 2006. Southern Methodist University, Geothermal Lab, 2004 Surface Heat Flow Map. Released: 2004. |
| Heating Oil Reserves (CT and NJ) | Established in July 2000 to cushion the effects of disruptions in the supply of home heating oil. Storage contracts for these reserves expire every several years. As of December 2009, reserves are located in Groton, CT, New Haven, CT, and Perth Amboy, NJ. | U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Petroleum Reserves. Last Modified: August 13, 2009. |
| Kilauea East Rift Zone (HI) | Source of active volcanic geothermal energy, supplying approximately 20 percent of the total electricity needs of the island of Hawaii. | State of Hawaii, Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism, Geothermal. Last Modified: December 1, 2008. |
| LNG Import & Export Facilities (AK, GA, LA, MA, MD, PR, and TX) | Terminals capable of liquefaction of natural gas for transport (Kenai, AK), or receipt and regasification of LNG for use as natural gas (GA - Elba Island; LA - Cameron, Lake Charles, Gulf Gateway Deepwater Port, and Sabine Pass; MA - Everett, Neptune, and Northeast Gateway Energy Bridge; MD - Cove Point; PR - Peñuelas; TX - Freeport and Golden Pass). | EIA, Geographic Information System (GasTran). Last Modified: September 2009. Unpublished. EIA, U.S. LNG Markets and Uses: June 2004 Update. Released: June 2004. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, FERC Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Projects. Last Modified: October 27, 2009. |
| Louisiana Offshore Oil Port | An offshore port that is the only U.S. port capable of offloading deep draft tankers known as Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCC) and Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC). | LOOP LCC. Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, LOOP Program. |
| National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska | A 23-million-acre area located on the North Slope of Alaska, which the U.S. Geological Survey estimates has between 5.9 and 13.2 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. | U.S. Department Of the Interior, Fact Sheet: Northwest National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Integrated Activity Plan, Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision. Undated. U.S. Department Of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, Supplemental Integrated Activity Plan, Record of Decision. July 2008. Map 1. Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska Decision. |
| Natural Gas Flow | Natural gas transportation routes that have a capacity of more than 100 million cubic feet per day. Capacities determined at State borders. Note: Arrows indicate the net direction of gas flow. | EIA, Geographic Information System (GasTran). Last Modified: September 2009. Unpublished. EIA, State to State Natural Gas Pipeline Capacities and Flows (spreadsheet). Released: March 1, 2009. |
| Natural Gas Market Centers and Hubs | A hub is a physical transfer point for natural gas where several pipelines are connected. A market center is a hub where the operator offers services that facilitate the buying, selling, and transportation of natural gas. | EIA, Geographic Information System (GasTran). Last Modified: September 2009. Unpublished. EIA, Natural Gas Market Centers: A 2008 Update. Released: April 2009. |
| Oil & Gas Active Leases (AL, FL, LA, MS, and TX) | Boundary of active Federal oil and gas leases. | U.S. Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico Region. Updated: September 1, 2009. |
| Oil Refineries | All operable petroleum refineries as of January 1, 2009. | EIA, Refinery Capacity Report, Table 3. Capacity of Operable Petroleum Refineries by State as of January 1, 2009. Released: June 25, 2009. |
| Oil Seaport/Oil Import Sites | All ports of entry for crude oil and petroleum products that showed activity from January through December 2008 of at least 10,000 barrels per day. | EIA, Company Level Imports Historical, Historical Imports by Month Including Final Revisions. 2008. |
| Oil Seaport/Oil Import Sites - U.S. Territories | American Samoa | American Samoa Government, Department of Port Administration. U.S. Department of the Interior, United States of America Insular Areas Energy Assessment Report: An Update of the 1982 Territorial Energy Assessment, 2006, Chapter 5. American Samoa, pp 108-150. |
| Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands | Commonwealth Ports Authority. | |
| Guam | Port Authority of Guam. | |
| Puerto Rico | EIA, Company Level Imports Historical, Historical Imports by Month Including Final Revisions: 2007. | |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook, Virgin Islands (Territory of the US). Virgin Islands Port Authority. |
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| Propane Supply Hubs (KS, MS, and TX) | Hubs in Kansas (Conway), Mississippi (Hattiesburg), and Texas (Mont Belvieu). | EIA, An Analysis of U.S. Propane Markets Winter 1996-97, June 1997. |
| Rivers | Major rivers of the United States. | United States Geological Survey, Lengths of the major rivers. |
| Solar Energy Potential | Monthly average daily total solar resource available to a flat plate collector, such as a photovoltaic panel, oriented due south at an angle from horizontal equal to latitude of the collector location, of 6 kilowatthours per square meter per day or greater. | U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Dynamic Maps, GIS Data, & Analysis Tools. Last Modified: April 22, 2009. |
| State Capitals | Pitney Bowes Business Insight, MapInfo Professional. | |
| Strategic Petroleum Reserve (LA, MS, and TX) | The largest stockpile of government-owned emergency crude oil in the world, established in Bayou Choctaw and West Hackenberry, LA and in Big Hill and Bryan Mound, TX to protect against disruptions in U.S. commercial oil supplies. A new site in Richton, MS has been selected to increase capacity. | U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Petroleum Reserves. Last Modified: February 27, 2009. |
| Synthetic Natural Gas Plants (HI, MO, and ND) | Plants that manufacture a product, chemically similar in most respects to natural gas, resulting from the conversion or reforming of hydrocarbons, that may easily be substituted for or interchanged with pipeline-quality natural gas. | EIA, EIA-176 Query System 2008.
(Data for 2007) Released: November 30, 2008. |
| Territories | American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | Pitney Bowes Business Insight, MapInfo Professional. Ventyx, Velocity Suite. Released: January 2009. |
| Trans-Alaska Pipeline System | The largest-capacity crude oil pipeline in the United States, transporting crude oil from Alaska's North Slope to the warm-water Port of Valdez, on Alaska’s southern coast. | U.S. Department of Transportation, National Pipeline Mapping System, Pipeline Integrity Management Mapping Application. |
| Wind Energy Potential | Areas with wind resources of Wind Power Class 3 or greater, which are suitable for most utility-scale wind turbine applications. | U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Dynamic Maps, GIS Data, & Analysis Tools. Last Modified: April 22, 2009. |
Updates
as of September 20, 2012
New statistics for July 2012:
- Civilian labor force
New statistics for June 2012:
- Price of crude oil
- Prices of city gate and residential natural gas
- Price of coal delivered to the electric power sector
- Prices of electricity sold to the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors
- Production of crude oil
- Total net electricity generation and net electricity generation by fuel
- Stocks of motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil
- Natural gas in underground storage
- Fuel stocks at electric power producers
- Consumption for electricity generation by fuel
New statistics for 2012:
- Crude oil refinery capacity