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]
Ethane prices began declining relative to natural gas prices in late 2011 and remained consistently lower than gas between 2013 and 2015 U.S. natural gas plant liquids (NGPL) production has nearly doubled since 2010, outpacing the rate [Read more]
Half of US propane production is from the Gulf Coast In 2017, the United States exported 905,000 barrels per day (b/d) of propane, with the largest volumes going to supply petrochemical feedstock demand in Asian [Read more]
Drilling rig count in state increased, averaging 20 rigs in 2016 and 33 in 2017 Pennsylvania’s marketed natural gas production averaged a record 15 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2017, 3% higher than the [Read more]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Growth in Permian Basin projected to associated natural gas production, national output reaches 4.6 million b/d by 1019 In its Jan. 2018 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), the EIA forecasts that total fossil fuels production in the United [Read more]
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