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EIA explores India’s projected energy consumption

December 12, 2019 Energi Staff

By Elizabeth Sendich, Ari Kahan This article was published by the US Energy Information Administration on Dec. 12, 2019. In the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) International Energy Outlook 2019 (IEO2019), India has the fastest growing [Read more]

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USA

US hydrocarbon gas liquids consumption increases as prices, expenditures decrease

June 25, 2018 Markham Hislop

HGLs are feedstock in production organic chemicals (e.g. ethylene, propylene) used to make plastics and resins. Consumption of hydrocarbon gas liquids (HGL) in the United States totaled 928 million barrels in 2016, up about 12% since 2010, according [Read more]

autonomous
USA

Adoption of autonomous vehicles could increase US transportation energy consumption

June 19, 2018 Markham Hislop

Electricity consumption is higher in all cases Autonomous vehicles are one of the main sources of uncertainty in the future of U.S. transportation energy consumption, as autonomous vehicle technology has the potential to change travel [Read more]

residential
USA

Expanded US home energy survey offers insights into how Americans consume electricity

June 5, 2018 Markham Hislop

Among homes that have swimming pool pumps, equipment consumes 8% of total electricity used each year Results from the 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) introduced estimates of energy consumption for an expanded list of energy end [Read more]

USA

US electric power sector consumption of fossil fuels at lowest level since 1994

May 30, 2018 Markham Hislop

CO2 emissions from coal were more than double those from natural gas in 2017 Fossil fuels consumption in the electric power sector declined to 22.5 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2017, the lowest level [Read more]

EIA
USA

EIA raises crude oil, US gasoline price forecasts for 2018

May 10, 2018 Markham Hislop

Greater GDP growth has potential to increase oil consumption beyond forecasted levels, putting upward pressure on crude oil prices EIA’s May Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) forecasts that Brent crude oil prices will average $71 per barrel (b) [Read more]

consumption
USA

Coal decline for power generation leads to more US natural gas production, consumption – EIA

April 16, 2018 Markham Hislop

Natural gas leading source of electricity generation in U.S. through 2050, accounting for 35% of electricity generation, an increase from 31% in 2017 EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2018 (AEO) projects that U.S. dry natural gas production will [Read more]

fossil fuels
USA

About 7% of fossil fuels consumed for non-combustion use in the United States

April 6, 2018 Markham Hislop

In 2017, about 13% of total petroleum products consumed were for non-combustion use While most fossil fuels in the United States are burned, or combusted, to produce heat and power, EIA estimates that the equivalent [Read more]

electricity sales
USA

In 2017 US electricity sales fell because of mild weather, fewer ‘heating degree days’

April 3, 2018 Markham Hislop

Heating degree days, an indicator of heating-related energy demand, were 1% lower in 2017 compared with 2016 levels U.S. retail electricity sales fell by 80 billion kilowatthours (kWh) in 2017, the largest drop since the economic recession [Read more]

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USA

US coal demand remains flat for decades – EIA

March 30, 2018 Markham Hislop

Coal demand drops to 14% of total generation by 2050, and utilization rate for coal plants remains under 60% EIA projects U.S. coal disposition—domestic demand and coal exports—to remain relatively flat through 2050 in the Annual Energy [Read more]

electricity demand
USA

Electricity demand by US manufacturing has declined in recent years

March 23, 2018 Markham Hislop

Petroleum and coal product manufacturing’s 19 million MWh of onsite electricity generation is nearly all generated by petroleum refiners Overall electricity demand in U.S. manufacturing has declined in recent years, based on data from the U.S. Census [Read more]

industrial
USA

Natural gas expected to remain most-consumed fuel in U.S. industrial sector

March 1, 2018 Markham Hislop

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]

News

China becomes world’s second largest LNG importer, behind Japan

February 23, 2018 Markham Hislop

Natural gas imports accounted for 40% of Chinese gas use , and LNG made up over 50% of imports China surpassed South Korea to become the world’s second-largest importer of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in [Read more]

petrochemical
USA

US ethane exports to Canada increase even as new American petrochemical plants come online

February 20, 2018 Markham Hislop

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]

USA

January’s cold weather leads to spike in oil-fired electricity generation in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic

January 30, 2018 Markham Hislop

Dual-fuel generators can now specify the percentage of fuels they plan to use and the costs for each fuel The bomb cyclone weather event in early Jan. 2018 resulted in record levels of U.S. natural gas demand [Read more]

USA

Natural gas production in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia growing faster than demand

January 27, 2018 Markham Hislop

Recent growth in natural gas consumption has almost all been in electric power sector Significant growth in natural gas production over the past decade—primarily from the Marcellus and Utica shales in the Appalachian Basin—have increased gross natural gas [Read more]

USA

Canada boosts natural gas exports to US during Eastern cold snap, record storage withdrawals

January 12, 2018 Markham Hislop

Pipeline imports from Canada increased during this period, partially offsetting some of the production declines During the recent cold weather event that affected much of the eastern United States, more natural gas was withdrawn from [Read more]

News

EIA forecasts 3.3 million b/d crude oil consumption growth, flat prices through 2019

January 11, 2018 Markham Hislop

Global petroleum consumption grew by 1.4MM b/d in 2017 (to 98.4MM b/d), will grow by 1.7MM b/d in 2018, 1.6MM b/d in 2019 The U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Jan. Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts Brent crude oil to average [Read more]

In the Spotlight

Alberta needs a Plan B

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Oil finally has a competitor (electricity) Alberta already has a Plan A. It’s called the Emissions Reduction and Energy Development Plan. To understand how risky it is, you need to understand OPEC’s “Oil and Gas [Read more]

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