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Monthly Energy Review
Mar 29, 2016
The March report includes the first complete set of 2015 preliminary statistics for U.S. total energy consumption, production, trade, and carbon dioxide emissions. Preliminary data indicate that U.S. total primary energy consumption equaled 98 quadrillion Btu in 2015, a 1% decrease from 2014. U.S. total primary energy production totaled 89 quadrillion Btu in 2015, a 1% increase from the year before.
State Energy Data System: Liquefied petroleum gases and total petroleum for 2014
Mar 25, 2016
Annual state-level estimates of consumption, prices, and expenditures for liquefied petroleum gases and total petroleum.
State Electricity Profiles updated for 2014 data
Mar 24, 2016
The annual report contains data tables describing the electricity industry in each state. Data include generating capability, electricity generation, fuel use and prices, retail sales, emissions, net interstate transfers of electricity, and metering counts.
Trends in U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Upstream Costs
Mar 23, 2016
Average 2015 well drilling and completion costs in five onshore areas decline 25% and 30% below their level in 2012
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) commissioned IHS Global Inc. (IHS) to perform a study of upstream drilling and production costs. The IHS report assesses capital and operating costs associated with drilling, completing, and operating wells and facilities. The report focuses on five onshore regions, including the Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Marcellus plays, two plays (Midland and Delaware) within the Permian basin, as well as the offshore federal Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The period studied runs from 2006 through 2015, with forecasts to 2018. Among the report’s key findings are that average well drilling and completion costs in five onshore areas evaluated in 2015 were between 25% and 30% below their level in 2012, when costs per well were at their highest point over the past decade.
Wind and Solar Data Projections from the U.S. Energy Information Administration: Past Performance and Planned Enhancements
Mar 22, 2016
In an effort to improve EIA's approach to providing accurate, comprehensive data, and useful projections for policy analysis, EIA has conducted a review of its historical data and projections of capacity, generation, and cost projections for wind and solar technologies. While EIA's internal processes and engagement with stakeholders are both continuing, this paper shares some early findings of EIA's current review of our wind and solar data and projections, focusing in part on some of the issues that have been publicly raised by EIA's critics.
Prime Supplier Report
Mar 21, 2016
The latest Prime Supplier Report presents data collected through January 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.
2012 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey: Energy Usage Summary
Mar 18, 2016
EIA has released summary tables providing energy consumption estimates from the 2012 CBECS. The data show that despite a 14% increase in total buildings and a 22% increase in total floorspace since 2003, energy use in the estimated 5.6 million U.S. commercial buildings was up just 7% during the same period. Slower growth in commercial building energy demand since 2003 is explained in part by newer construction that is built to higher energy performance standards, occupied by less energy intensive building activities, and more often built in temperate regions. The improved efficiency of key energy-consuming equipment is also decreasing demand. Since 2003, for example, space heating and lighting are each down by 11 percentage points in their share of energy use in buildings.
State Energy Data System: Nuclear energy for 2014
Mar 18, 2016
Annual state-level estimates of nuclear energy consumption, prices, and expenditures.
State Energy Profiles: New data for December 2015 and January 2016, new territory data, and updated analytical narratives and Quick Facts
Mar 18, 2016
New monthly data are available for electricity, petroleum, and coal series. The Territory Energy Profiles also feature new annual data on energy production, consumption, trade, and emissions. In addition, analytical narratives and Quick Facts have been updated for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, and Missouri, and Quick Facts have been updated for Puerto Rico.
Short-Term Outlook for Hydrocarbon Gas Liquids
Mar 16, 2016
U.S. liquid fuels production increased from 7.43 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2008 to 13.75 million b/d in 2015. However, the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) expects liquid fuels production to decline to 12.99 million b/d in 2017, mainly as a result of prolonged low oil prices. The liquid fuels production forecast reflects a 1.24 million b/d decline in crude oil production by 2017 that is partially offset by a 450,000 b/d increase in the production of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL)—a group of products including ethane, propane, butane (normal and isobutane), natural gasoline, and refinery olefins. This analysis will discuss the outlook for each of these four HGL streams and related infrastructure projects through 2017.
Underground Natural Gas Working Storage Capacity
Mar 16, 2016
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its 2016 Underground Natural Gas Working Storage Capacity update with data for November 2015. U.S. natural gas working storage capacity (in terms of design capacity and demonstrated maximum working gas volumes) as of November 2015 was essentially flat compared to November 2014, with some regions increasing while others decreased. Demonstrated maximum working gas levels increased in the South Central Salt region, offsetting declines in the Mountain region. With the exception of the Mountain region and the South Central region, storage capacity in most regions changed by less than 1% from the previous period in both maximum working gas levels and in design capacity.
Algeria Country Analysis Brief
Mar 11, 2016
Algeria is the leading natural gas producer in Africa, the second-largest natural gas supplier to Europe, and is one of the top three oil producers in Africa.
United Kingdom Country Analysis Brief
Mar 9, 2016
Production of petroleum and other liquids in the United Kingdom increased in 2015, as investments made when oil prices were high came to fruition, but the UK remains a net importer. Although production in the UK has not yet responded to lower oil prices, investment in the UK’s oil and natural gas industry is declining. This decline will likely lead to lower production in the future.
Quarterly Coal Distribution Report (QCDR) – Fourth Quarter 2014
Mar 9, 2016
This report provides detailed U.S. domestic coal distribution data for October – December 2014, excluding waste coal and imports, by coal origin, coal destination, mode of transportation, and consuming sector. Quarterly coal distribution data for all years are preliminary and will be superseded by the release of the corresponding “Annual Coal Distribution Report.”
Short-Term Energy Outlook - Market Prices and Uncertainty Report
Mar 8, 2016
The North Sea Brent front month futures price rose $2.83 per barrel (b) from February 1 to settle at $37.07/b on March 3. The West Texas Intermediate (WTI) front month futures price rose $2.95/b and settled at $34.57 over the same period.
Short-Term Energy Outlook
Mar 8, 2016
North Sea Brent crude oil prices averaged $32/barrel (b) in February, a $1/b increase from January.
Brent crude oil prices are forecast to average $34/b in 2016 and $40/b in 2017, $3/b and $10/b lower than forecast in last month's STEO, respectively. The lower forecast prices reflect oil production that has been more resilient than expected in a low-price environment and lower expectations for forecast oil demand growth.
Drilling Productivity Report
Mar 7, 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.
State Energy Data System: Retail electricity for 2014
Mar 4, 2016
Annual state-level estimates of retail electricity consumption, prices, and expenditures.
Types of Possible Survey Errors in Estimates Published in the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
Mar 2, 2016
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects and publishes natural gas storage information on a monthly and weekly basis. The Form EIA-191, Monthly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report, is a census survey that collects field-level information from all underground natural gas storage operators in the United States known to EIA. EIA also collects weekly information about working natural gas levels from a sample of natural gas storage operators completing the Form EIA-912, Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report. The EIA-191 and EIA-912 surveys are the basis for the EIA's Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR).
