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U.S. average gasoline prices this Thanksgiving are the second-lowest in eight years

Nov 23, 2016
Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, U.S. retail regular-grade gasoline averaged $2.16 per gallon (g), up just six cents per gallon from the same time last year. This is the second-lowest gasoline price since 2008, when the national regular gasoline price averaged $1.89/g on the Monday prior to Thanksgiving.

Updated Capital Cost Estimates for Utility Scale Electricity Generating Plants

Nov 22, 2016
The current and future projected cost and performance characteristics of new electric generating capacity are a critical input into the development of energy projections and analyses.

Prime Supplier Report

Nov 22, 2016
The latest Prime Supplier Report presents data collected through September 2016 on Form EIA-782C, "Monthly Report of Prime Supplier Sales of Petroleum Products Sold for Local Consumption." These data measure primary petroleum product deliveries into the states where they are locally marketed and consumed.

New infrastructure aims to increase takeaway capacity of natural gas from Utica region

Nov 22, 2016
A number of pipeline projects that have been approved, or are in various stages of the approval process, would increase capacity to transport natural gas from the Utica production region in Ohio to natural gas markets. Collectively, these projects could add up to 6.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of takeaway capacity out of the Utica region by the end of 2018.

Electric Power Annual 2015

Nov 21, 2016
The Electric Power Annual 2015 (EPA 2015) report is now available with final data through 2015. The 2015 EPA presents 11 years (2005-15) of national-level data on electricity generating capacity, electricity generation and useful thermal output, fuel receipts, consumption, and emissions.

EIA creates winter version of its daily energy dashboard for Southern California

Nov 21, 2016
EIA has updated its Southern California Daily Energy Report to provide additional information on key energy market indicators for the winter season. The dashboard includes information that EIA regularly compiles about energy operations and the management of natural gas and electricity systems in Southern California in the aftermath of a leak at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility outside of Los Angeles.

Southern California Daily Energy Report

Nov 21, 2016
EIA’s Southern California Daily Energy Report has been updated to provide additional information on key energy market indicators for the winter season. This dashboard report includes information that EIA regularly compiles about energy operations and the management of natural gas and electricity systems in Southern California in the aftermath of a leak at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility near Los Angeles. Although the leak has since been plugged, regulators have placed ongoing limitations on the use of that facility.

Coal may surpass natural gas as most common electricity generation fuel this winter

Nov 18, 2016
After declining for several months, the share of U.S. electricity fueled by coal is expected to slowly begin growing when compared to the same period last year. In contrast, the share of generation from natural gas is expected to experience year-over-year declines.

State Energy Profiles: New monthly data for all states and updated Quick Facts and analytical narratives for four states

Nov 17, 2016
New August and September 2016 monthly data are available for electricity, petroleum, natural gas, and coal. The profiles also feature updated analytical narratives and Quick Facts for Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

Residential heating oil and propane prices at levels similar to last winter’s low prices

Nov 17, 2016
Residential heating oil and propane prices have started the winter heating season at levels similar to last winter’s levels, while inventories of both fuels are near or above five-year highs for this time of year. On average, prices for residential heating oil and propane during last winter (October 2015 through March 2016) were the lowest in at least a decade.

Refinery Outages: Fall 2016

Nov 16, 2016
This report examines U.S. refinery outages planned for September 2016 through December 2016 and the implications for available refinery production capacity, petroleum product markets, and the supply of gasoline, diesel fuel, and jet fuel. Dissemination of such analyses can be beneficial to market participants who may otherwise be unable to access such information.

Amount of natural gas in storage reaches new record

Nov 16, 2016
Working natural gas in storage reached a record high of 4,017 billion cubic feet (Bcf) as of November 4, according to EIA’s latest Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report. Inventories have been relatively high throughout the year, surpassing previous five-year highs in 48 of the past 52 weeks.

U.S. oil drilling increasingly focused in Permian Basin

Nov 15, 2016
U.S. drilling activity is increasingly concentrated in the Permian Basin, which spans parts of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The Permian now holds nearly as many active oil rigs as the rest of the United States combined, including both onshore and offshore rigs, and it is the only region in EIA’s Drilling Productivity Report where crude oil production is expected to increase for the third consecutive month.

Annual Coal Distribution Report 2015

Nov 14, 2016
The Annual Coal Distribution Report provides detailed information on U.S. domestic coal distribution for 2015 excluding waste coal and imports by coal origin state, destination state, mode of transportation, and coal consuming sector. Also, the report provides a summary of foreign coal distribution by coal-exporting state. All data for 2015 are final and this report supersedes the data published in all quarterly coal distribution reports during 2015.

Drilling Productivity Report

Nov 14, 2016
EIA’s monthly Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) has been released. The DPR takes a fresh look at oil and natural gas production, starting with an assessment of how and where drilling for hydrocarbons is taking place. It uses recent data on the total number of drilling rigs in operation along with estimates of drilling productivity and estimated changes in production from existing oil and natural gas wells to provide estimated changes in oil and natural gas production for seven key fields.

Microchannel gas-to-liquid plants convert stranded natural gas to marketable products

Nov 14, 2016
The first microchannel gas-to-liquid (GTL) plant in the United States was completed in September. The new plant, built by ENVIA Energy, is located in Oklahoma and is expected to begin converting landfill gas into liquid petroleum products later this year.

In 2015, U.S. coal production, consumption, and employment fell by more than 10%

Nov 10, 2016
U.S. coal production dropped by more than 10% in 2015 to 897 million short tons (MMst), the lowest production level since 1986. Production in all three major coal-producing regions (the Appalachian, the Interior, and the Western) declined, as consumption of coal for electric power generation, industrial, and other uses fell by 13% to 798 MMst in 2015.

Updated Buildings Sector Appliance and Equipment Costs and Efficiency

Nov 9, 2016
EIA works with technology experts to project the cost and efficiency of future HVAC, lighting, and other major end-use equipment rather than developing residential and commercial technology projections in-house. These reports have always been available by request. By providing the reports online, EIA is increasing transparency for some of the most important assumptions used for our AEO projections of buildings energy demand.

Declining investment in Norway affects exploration drilling more than production drilling

Nov 9, 2016
Total investment in oil and natural gas extraction in Norway was 21% lower in the first half of 2016 compared with the first half of 2015, a decline of about 20.9 billion Norwegian kroner (US $3.5 billion). However, investment cuts have affected some segments of the industry more than others.

Short-Term Energy Outlook

Nov 8, 2016
U.S. crude oil production averaged 9.4 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2015, and it is forecast to average 8.8 million b/d in 2016 and 8.7 million b/d in 2017. Forecast production in 2017 is more than 0.1 million b/d higher than in last month's STEO.

Colonial Pipeline restarts Line 1, resumes gasoline shipments to U.S. Southeast

Nov 8, 2016
Following an outage that began on October 31, Colonial Pipeline's Line 1 resumed shipping gasoline early Sunday morning. Line 1 carries gasoline from the Gulf Coast to as far east and north as North Carolina and is a key supply source for several states in between and beyond.

U.S. crude oil production in 2015 was the highest since 1972

Nov 7, 2016
U.S. field production of crude oil increased in 2015 for the seventh consecutive year, reaching 9.42 million barrels per day (b/d). This was the highest crude oil production level since 1972, based on final production numbers in EIA’s Petroleum Supply Annual.

Oil wells drilled horizontally are among the highest-producing wells

Nov 4, 2016
Oil wells drilled horizontally through hydrocarbon-bearing formations are often among the most prolific oil wells in the United States. Although modern horizontal drilling achieved commercial success in the 1980s, drilling techniques have improved, and in recent years, horizontal drilling has become more common.

Annual Coal Report

Nov 3, 2016
The Annual Coal Report (ACR) provides annual data on U.S. coal production, number of mines, productive capacity, recoverable reserves, employment, productivity, consumption, stocks, and prices. All data for 2015 and prior years are final.

State Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Nov 3, 2016
These estimates of energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) are based on the State Energy Data System. The state CO2 data include a summary table with total energy-related CO2 by state beginning in 1990, a table with emissions by fuel in 2014 and a table with emissions by sector in 2014. There are additional tables by fuels and sectors for all states across time. Detailed tables for individual states provide emissions by fuel and sector for data beginning in 1980. Documentation for methodology is also included on the page.

Major gasoline pipeline in Southeast disrupted for second time in two months

Nov 3, 2016
On the afternoon of October 31, an explosion occurred on the Colonial Pipeline Line 1, which carries gasoline from the Gulf Coast to as far east and north as North Carolina and is a key supply source for several states in between and beyond. This is the second major disruption of Colonial Line 1 in less than two months.

Kuwait Country Analysis Brief

Nov 2, 2016
As a member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Kuwait was the world's 10th-largest producer of petroleum and other liquids in 2015, and it was the fifth-largest producer of crude oil among the 14 OPEC members. Despite its relatively small geographic size (about 6,900 square miles), in terms of production, it only trailed Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates in production of petroleum and other liquids in 2015.

U.S. summer gasoline consumption sets new high

Nov 2, 2016
The consumption of U.S. finished motor gasoline reached a new high of 9.7 million barrels per day (b/d) in June 2016, surpassing the previous one-month high of 9.6 million b/d set in July 2007. U.S. gasoline consumption during summer 2016 (June through August) increased by 169,000 b/d, or 1.8%, relative to the same period in 2015. The increase in gasoline consumption was slightly lower than the increase in driving, suggesting that fuel economy improvements slightly mitigated the increase.

U.S. energy production, consumption has changed significantly since 1908

Nov 1, 2016
On Tuesday, the Cleveland Indians are set to host the Chicago Cubs in game six of the 2016 Major League Baseball World Series. In the 68 years since the last title for the Cleveland Indians, and the 108 years since the last World Series title for the Chicago Cubs, energy production and consumption patterns in the United States have changed a great deal.

Petroleum Marketing Monthly

Nov 1, 2016
The November 2016 Petroleum Marketing Monthly (PMM), with data through August 2016, presents monthly and annual price and volume statistics covering crude oil and refined products sales in the United States. In this issue of the PMM, preliminary August data show crude oil prices continued to decline, while prices for refined products show mixed trends. At the national level, Prime Supplier data show sales of the major petroleum products rose from July levels.

Petroleum Supply Monthly

Oct 31, 2016
Supply and disposition of crude oil and petroleum products on a national and regional level. The data series describe production, imports and exports, movements, and inventories.

Company Level Imports

Oct 31, 2016
Imports data at the company level collected from the EIA-814 Monthly Imports Report.

U.S. Movements of Crude Oil By Rail

Oct 31, 2016
Monthly data on rail movements of crude oil have been updated for August 2016. Crude oil movements by rail have significantly increased over the past five years. The new data on crude-by-rail (CBR) movements are also fully integrated with EIA’s existing monthly petroleum supply statistics, which already include crude oil movements by pipeline, tanker, and barge.

Fort Calhoun becomes fifth U.S. nuclear plant to retire in past five years

Oct 31, 2016
The Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station, located near Omaha, Nebraska, shut down on Monday, October 24, after the Omaha Public Power District voted in June to retire the plant, citing economic reasons as the main cause. With a capacity of 478 megawatts (MW), Fort Calhoun was the smallest active nuclear power plant in the United States at the time of its retirement.

Monthly Biodiesel Production Report

Oct 31, 2016
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released new data today showing national and regional monthly biodiesel production for August 2016. In addition to biodiesel production, data included producer sales, producer stocks, and feedstock inputs.

Natural Gas Monthly

Oct 31, 2016
• In August 2016, for the sixth consecutive month, dry natural gas production decreased year-to-year from the same month in 2015. Preliminary dry natural gas production for August 2016 was 2,239 billion cubic feet (Bcf), or 72.2 Bcf/day. This was a 2.0 Bcf/day (2.7%) decrease from the August 2015 level of 74.3 Bcf/day. • Preliminary dry natural gas consumption for August 2016 was 2,225 Bcf, or 71.8 Bcf/day. This was an increase of 8.0%, or 5.3 Bcf/day, from the 2,061 Bcf consumed in August 2015. • Year-over-year total consumption of dry natural gas in August increased in three of the four consuming sectors, with the exception being residential deliveries, which decreased year-to-year. Deliveries of natural gas by consuming sector in August 2016 were as follows: o Residential deliveries in August 2016 were 101.7 Bcf, or 3.28 Bcf/day, down 1.1% from 3.32 Bcf/day in August 2015. o Commercial deliveries were 139 Bcf, or 4.5 Bcf/day, up 3.0% from 4.4 Bcf/day in August 2015. o Industrial deliveries were 633 Bcf, or 20.4 Bcf/day, up 5.3% from 19.4 Bcf/day in August 2015. Industrial deliveries were the highest for the month since EIA began tracking them in 2001. o Electric power deliveries were 1,162 Bcf, or 37.5 Bcf/day, up 12.3% from 33.4 Bcf/day in August 2015. Electric power deliveries were the highest for any month since EIA began tracking them in 2001.

Monthly Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production

Oct 31, 2016
These monthly production estimates are based on data from the EIA-914, Monthly Crude Oil, Lease Condensate, and Natural Gas Production Report.

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