After several years of declines, coal production and employment increased in 2017 Coal mining productivity in the United States increased 26% over the past five years, reaching 6.8 tons per miner hour in 2017, up [Read more]
West Coast jet fuel imports primarily from South Korea, China, and Japan Net imports of jet fuel into the West Coast (defined as Petroleum Administration for Defense District, or PADD, 5) have increased in recent years [Read more]
US ethanol consumption increased 1% in 2017, same expect to 2019 Estimated ethanol production margins at U.S. corn ethanol plants averaged 22 cents per gallon (gal) in 2017. Last year was the fifth consecutive year [Read more]
US domestic market can only absorb 1/4 of extra 4 million b/d of US light crude expected to enter market in 2023 As tight-oil production continues to grow, the US is positioning itself as a [Read more]
EIA projects natural gas produced in Appalachian and Permian basins will account for most production growth EIA expects a 40% increase in natural gas consumed in the U.S. industrial sector, from 9.8 quadrillion British thermal [Read more]
By the end of 2016, California had 120 MW of utility-scale battery storage capacity in place About two-thirds of utility-scale battery storage power capacity installed in 2016 in the United States is located in two [Read more]
Tight oil estimated to make up 77% of total US production by 2050 EIA’s recently released Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) Reference case projects that U.S. tight oil production will generally increase through the early 2040s, when [Read more]
Commercial stocks of crude oil provide 452 million barrels, equivalent to another 172 days of import protection Recent legislation has directed the sale of more than 100 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic [Read more]
US ethane exports on Utopia pipeline that crosses into Canada near Detroit Over the next two years, EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) projects growth in U.S. consumption of ethane in the petrochemical industry will exceed increases in consumption [Read more]
US coal production increases are in part to bankruptcy-caused restructuring of several major coal producers The EIA expects total 2017 U.S. coal production to be 773 million short tons (MMst), 45 MMst higher than in [Read more]
By 2030, US net petroleum exports will total 5.3 million b/d EIA projects that the United States will become a net energy exporter in 2022 in the newly released Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO2018) Reference case, primarily [Read more]
Protestors gathered outside the California state legislature in Sacramento to protest the Trump administration’s changes to the US offshore oil drilling plan. CALmatters.org photo. Trump administration expanded its offshore oil drilling plan last year At [Read more]
Accessing Canadian hydro power part of increased spending, especially in Mid-Continent region of United States Spending on transmission infrastructure to deliver power to homes and businesses has increased steadily over the past 10 years as [Read more]
The Seoul Spirit, a crude tanker filled with US shale oil sailed from Houston and arrived in the Persian Gulf in January. Teekay.com photo. Energy economist Ed Hirs says political conflict between UAE and Saudi [Read more]
The United States says it is considering imposing Venezuelan oil sanctions in an effort to pressure President Nicolás Maduro to return the South American country to full constitutional order. AFP/Getty Images photo by Luis Robayo. Venezuelan oil [Read more]
US energy-related CO2 emissions declined by 861 million metric tons, 14% from 2005 to 2017 In the latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, EIA projects that CO2 emissions will rise 1.8 per cent, from 5,143 million metric tons [Read more]
A decline in incentives, concerns over tariffs and steep losses in mature markets led to a drop in employment in the US solar industry. eSolar photo. Jobs lost in US solar industry due to a [Read more]
Renewable increases, most of the new generation capacity is powered by solar The mix of fuels used to generate electricity in the United States has changed in response to differences in the relative costs of [Read more]
Renewable electricity generation costs expected to continue declining, especially for solar photovoltaic systems The US Energy Information Administration says that continued development of American shale and tight oil and natural gas resources paired with modest energy [Read more]
$6 billion Bass acquisition in 2017 added estimated 3.4 billion BOE for ExxonMobil ExxonMobil announced that it plans to triple total daily production to more than 600,000 oil-equivalent barrels by 2025 from its operations in the [Read more]
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