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Find statistics on prices, exploration & reserves, production, imports, exports, storage and consumption.

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Summary

  • Summary — price, supply, disposition
  • Monthly release date: March 31, 2020
  • Release date: October 31, 2019
  • Key natural gas data for prices, exploration & reserves, production, imports, exports, storage and consumption by U.S. and state.
  • Annual supply & disposition by state
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • U.S. and state level statistics for production, deliveries and receipts, storage injections and withdrawals
  • Annual
  • Natural gas overview
  • Release date: April 27, 2020|Data from: Monthly Energy Review
  • Annual release date: September 27, 2012
  • Statistics on gross withdrawals, marketed production, dry gas production, supplemental gases, imports, exports, consumption, and storage withdrawals.

Prices

  • Prices
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • U.S. and state prices for imports, exports, citygate, and end-use sectors, and wellhead (through 2012). Percentages of total volume delivered by sector.
  • Monthly, annual
  • Residential
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Average price of natural gas delivered to residential consumers by state
  • Monthly
  • Commercial
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Average price of natural gas delivered to commercial consumers by state
  • Monthly

Exploration & reserves

  • Reserves summary
  • Release date: February 13, 2018
  • Proved reserves for natural gas and natural gas liquids by U.S., region, and state
  • Annual
  • Proved nonproducing reserves
  • Release date: February 13, 2018
  • Reported proved reserves of crude oil, lease condensate, and wet natural gas, after lease separation by U.S., region, and state
  • Annual

Production

  • Gross withdrawals and production
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Components of natural gas production for the U.S., states and the Gulf of Mexico
  • Monthly, annual
  • Offshore gross withdrawals
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • U.S., state, and Gulf of Mexico gross withdrawals from oil and gas wells
  • Annual
  • Supplemental supplies
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • U.S. and State supplies of synthetic natural gas, biomass, refinery gas, propane-air, etc.
  • Monthly, annual
  • Natural gas plant processing
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • U.S. and state level statistics for natural gas processed, total liquids extracted, extraction loss.
  • Annual
  • Plant-level location and capacity
  • Release date: January 31, 2019
  • Plant-level location and capacity information for all natural gas processing plants in the United States.
  • Annual
  • Distribution and production of oil & gas wells
  • Release date: October 29, 2018
  • Yearly estimates of the number of U.S. producing oil and natural gas wells, which are grouped into 26 production volume brackets ranging from less than 1 BOE/day to more than 12,800 BOE/day.
  • Annual
  • Production by company
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Annual production volumes from data collected on Form EIA-176 (Annual Report of Natural and Supplemental Gas Supply and Disposition)
  • Annual
  • Monthly Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Monthly crude oil and natural gas production data collected on Form EIA-914 (Monthly Crude Oil, Lease Condensate, and Natural Gas Production Report)
  • Monthly

Imports/exports

  • U.S. liquefaction capacity
  • Release date: January 30, 2020
  • Detailed information on the size and location of U.S. LNG export projects (existing, under construction, and approved)
  • Available formats: XLS

Pipelines

  • About U.S. pipelines
  • Detailed information and maps showing pipelines, capacities, flows and network design, transportation corridors, and other relevant information for U.S. pipelines in the lower 48 states.
  • U.S. state-to-state capacity
  • Information on capacity of existing natural gas pipelines crossing between states, international borders, and offshore Gulf of Mexico.
  • Available formats: XLS
  • Pipeline projects
  • Detailed information on the size and location of pipeline projects announced or under construction.
  • Available formats: XLS

Storage

  • Underground storage by type
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • U.S. storage and storage activity by all operators, salt cavern fields and nonsalt cavern
  • Monthly, annual
  • Underground storage capacity
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Storage capacity, working gas capacity, and number of active fields for salt caverns, aquifers, and depleted fields by state
  • Monthly, annual
  • Underground natural gas working storage capacity
  • Release date: April 3, 2017
  • This report provides estimates of aggregate peak working gas capacity and working gas design capacity for the U.S. underground natural gas storage as of November 2015.
  • Annual
  • U.S. field level storage data
  • Release date: October 31, 2019
  • Annual field-level storage capacity and field-type data for all underground storage fields in the United States.
  • Annual
  • Planned storage projects
  • Detailed information on the size and location of underground storage facilities announced or under construction.
  • Available formats: XLS
  • Natural Gas Storage Dashboard
  • Release Date: March 26, 2020
  • Daily and weekly contextual information for the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR).

Consumption

  • Total consumption
  • Monthly release date: March 31, 2020
  • Annual release date: October 31, 2019
  • U.S. and State total consumption by lease and plant, pipeline, and end use consumers by sector
  • Delivered to consumers
  • Monthly release date: March 31, 2020
  • Annual release date: October 31, 2019
  • U.S. and State volumes delivered to end use consumers by sector
  • Number of consumers
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Number of sales and transported consumers for residential, commercial, and industrial sectors by state
  • Annual
  • Heat content of natural gas consumed
  • Release date: March 31, 2020
  • Btu per cubic foot of natural gas delivered to consumers by state and other components of consumption for U.S.
  • Annual
  • Company-level supply and disposition
  • Release date: October 31, 2019
  • Annual company-level supply and disposition data for all natural gas local distribution companies in the United States.
  • Annual