EIA: Texas the Biggest Producer, Consumer of NatGas in 2018


   
    

   CANYON LAKE, Texas (DTN) -- Energy Information Administration data for 2018 
released June 26 on consumption and production of natural gas in the United 
States shows Texas had the highest levels of both, with the state's consumption 
during the year at 12.2 Bcf/d while marketed production was at 21.5 Bcf/d.

   Texas oil and natural gas extraction and processing industries use 
significant amounts of natural gas as fuel, and a large chemicals industry with 
it for heat and power and as a feedstock. Texas also has the second-largest 
population of any state and has significant demand for electricity--42% of 
which was provided by natural gas-fired power plants in 2018. Other 
high-consuming states also tend to have large populations, such as California, 
Florida, and Pennsylvania.

   States with high concentrations of natural gas-fueled industries in 2018 
include Louisiana, California, and Pennsylvania, the EIA said.

   Hawaii used the least amount of natural gas of any state in 2018 at 9 
MMcf/d, the EIA said. The sources of supply for Hawaii's natural gas are 
synthetic natural gas created from naphtha, imported LNG, and renewable natural 
gas produced locally from biomass. These sources are expensive, and Hawaii had 
the highest average natural gas price in the nation in 2018 at $34.29 MMBtu, 
which compared with the national average of $5.71 MMBtu.

   Thirty-three states produced natural gas in 2018, EIA data shows. 
Pennsylvania, with 17 Bcf/d of marketed natural gas production in 2018, was 
behind Texas's 21.5 Bcf/d.

    

    

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