Table  2.Net Production of Dry Natural Gas in the United States by Foreign Direct Investment Affiliate Companies, 1998-2000

Company

1998

1999

2000

1999-2000 Percent Change

BP Americaa

897.0

907.0

1,174.0

29.4

Shell Oil

674.0

696.0

601.0

-13.6

Anadarko Petroleum

177.0

170.0

338.0

98.8

Canadian Occidental Petroleum

35.0

35.0

34.0

-2.9

Meridian Resource

20.6

22.7

27.7

21.8

BHP Petroleum (Americas)b

5.3

14.4

21.3

47.7

TotalFinaElf

117.9

92.0

87.6

-4.8

Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas

101.1

108.0

119.9

11.0

Enterprise Oil Gulf of Mexicoc

0.0

0.7

2.4

261.8

Chieftain Development International

27.0

27.5

20.9

-24.0

Greka Energye

1.6

0.9

1.8

112.3

Repsol YPFd

52.0

NA

NA

NM

Consol Energyf

5.5

16.0

33.5

109.5

Other Companies

0.2

(g)

(g)

NM

Total Foreign-Affiliated

2,114.2

2,090.2

2,462.1

17.8

Total United States

18,708

18,623

18,987

2.0

   aIncludes natural gas consumed in Alaska operations.

  bFor years ending May 31, 1999; June 30, 2000; and June 30, 2001.  See BHP Billiton, Quarterly Production Report, December 2001, and previous years.

     cSeparate production information for oil production and natural gas production are not provided by company for 2000.  Instead, production is provided on barrels of oil equivalent basis (boe, which combines oil and gas production).  Separate values for oil production and natural gas production for 2000 are estimated by applying the shares implied by the 1999 production levels for oil and natural gas, which were provided by the company.  Thus, the resulting 2000 production values for oil and natural gas are merely instructive due to their inherently speculative nature.

   dRepsol acquired YPF in 1999 and changed its name to Repsol YPF, S.A..

   eGreka Petroleum acquired Saba Petroleum in 1999.

     fProduction is for July 1 to June 30 and is assigned to the year in which the period begins.  Production does not include equity affiliate production.

   (g):  Denotes a production level that is less than 0.05.

   NA = Not available, NM = Not meaningful.

   Note: Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.

   Sources: Company Data: Form 10-K and 20-F reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, annual reports to shareholders, and Herold Financial Database.  U.S. Totals: Energy Information Administration, Monthly Energy Review,  DOE/EIA-0035(2002/03) (Washington, DC, March 2002), Table 4.1.