Virgin Islands, U.S.

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The U.S. Virgin Islands has few conventional energy resources and depends on imported crude oil for electricity generation; to increase grid reliability, the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority is exploring undersea cable links with Puerto Rico and the British Virgin Islands.
As of January 2012, consumers in the Virgin Islands were paying an average price of 47 cents per kilowatthour for electricity.
The Virgin Islands' largest solar project, the 451-kilowatt King Airport photovoltaic array on St. Thomas, went into operation in fall 2011 and provides 15 percent of the airport's electricity; in addition, solar water heaters are required for all new construction in the Virgin Islands.
The Hovensa refinery, which was one of the 10 largest crude oil refineries in the world and which provided 90 percent of the Virgin Islands' fuel, ended production in February 2012; the site will continue as a storage terminal.
The Virgin Islands is a pilot project of the international Energy Development in Island Nations (EDIN) program, which encourages efficiency and the use of renewable energy resources to cut fossil fuel use 60 percent by 2025.

Analysis Last Updated: July 2012

Overview data for Virgin Islands, U.S.

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Petroleum (Thousand Barrels per Day)			2011					2012
		History	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Central & South America	OECD	World	Rank	Virgin Islands, U.S.
Total Oil Production	Production of crude oil (including lease condensate), natural gas plant liquids, and other liquids, and refinery processing gain (loss). Negative value indicates refinery processing loss.	Total Oil Production Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	14.88	7,857	21,620	87,329	83	14.88
Crude Oil Production	Includes lease condensate.	Crude Oil Production Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.00	6,689	14,908	74,136	93	0.00
Consumption	Consumption of petroleum products and direct combustion of crude oil.	Petroleum Consumption Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	138.00	6,915	46,501	87,605	71	NA
Net Export/Imports(-)	Net Exports = Total Oil Production – Consumption. Negative numbers are Net Imports.	Petroleum Net Exports/Imports(-) Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	-123.12	943	-24,882	--	38	NA
Refinery Capacity	Crude oil distillation capacity as of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal.	Petroleum Refinery Capacity Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	500	6,582	45,873	88,097	34	500
Proved Reserves(Billion Barrels)	As of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal.	Petroleum Proved Reserves Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.00	237	224	1,474	90	0.00
Natural Gas (Billion Cubic Feet)			2010					2011
		History	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Central & South America	World	Rank		Virgin Islands, U.S.
Production	Dry natural gas.	Natural Gas Production Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0	5,517	111,954	89		0
Consumption	Dry natural gas.	Natural Gas Consumption Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0	5,106	113,321	109		0
Net Export/Imports(-)	Net Exports = Exports - Imports. Negative numbers are Net Imports. Note: Data range begins with the year 1990.	Natural Gas Net Exports/Imports(-) Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0	415	--	64		NA
Proved Reserves (Trillion Cubic Feet)	As of January 1. Sources: U.S. data from EIA; Other countries from Oil & Gas Journal.	Natural Gas Proved Reserves Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	NA	267	6,637	91		NA
Coal (Million Short Tons)			2010					2011
		History	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Central & South America	World	Rank		Virgin Islands, U.S.
Production	Production of primary coal (includes anthracite, bituminous, lignite, and for Estonia, oil shale).	Coal Production Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.000	92	7,954	68		0.000
Consumption	Consumption of primary coal (includes anthracite, bituminous, lignite, and for Estonia, oil shale) and net imports of metallurgical coke.	Coal Consumption Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.000	47	7,770	114		0.000
Net Export/Imports(-)	Net Exports = Exports – Imports. Negative numbers are Net Imports. Includes primary coal and metallurgical coke.	Coal Net Exports/Imports(-) Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.000	46	--	85		0.000
Electricity (Billion Kilowatthours)			2009					2010
		History	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Central & South America	World	Rank		Virgin Islands, U.S.
Net Generation	Conventional thermal electricity, hydroelectric power, nuclear electric power, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electric power generation.	Electricity Net Generation Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.87	1,044	19,071	152		0.83
Net Consumption	Net generation+electricty imports-electricity exports-electricity distribution losses.	Electricity Net Consumption Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.81	878	17,360	155		0.77
Installed Capacity (GWe)	One billion watts or one thousand megawatts of electric capacity, as of January 1.	Electricity Installed Capacity Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.32	253	4,843	148		0.32
Total Primary Energy (Quadrillion Btu)			2009					2010
		History	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Central & South America	World	Rank		Virgin Islands, U.S.
Production	Production of petroleum (crude oil and natural gas plant liquids), dry natural gas, and coal, and net generation of hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electric power.	Total Primary Energy Production Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	.000	29	487	180		0.000
Consumption	Consumption of petroleum, dry natural gas, and coal, and net hydroelectric, nuclear, and geothermal, solar, wind, and wood and waste electricity. Also includes net electricty imports.	Total Primary Energy Consumption Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	0.223	25	488	93		0.228
Energy Intensity (Btu per 2005 U.S. Dollars)	Consumption per dollar of gross domestic product using purchasing power parities.	Total Primary Energy Intensity Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	60,591	5,882	7,461	2		60,338
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Million Metric Tons of CO₂)			2010					2011
		History	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Central & South America	World	Rank		Virgin Islands, U.S.
Total from Consumption of Fossil Fuels	Emissions from the consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and coal and the flaring of natural gas.	CO2 from Consumption of Fossil Fuels Enlarge chart Rollover line points for data.Close	15.56	1,288	31,502	90		18.59