EIA: Natural Gas Annual - 2016 - eng (pdf) ^{Избранное}

The 2016 Natural Gas Annual, with data through 2016, has been released.

• The 2016 Natural Gas Annual shows U.S. dry natural gas production for 2016 declined from the previous year for the first time since 2005, while consumption reached a record high for the seventh consecutive year.
• Domestic dry natural gas production of 26.7 trillion cubic feet (Tcf), or 72.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), in 2016 was 1.5% below the 2015 level of 74.2 Bcf/d. Texas saw the largest total decline in dry natural gas production, decreasing 10% from 19.4 Bcf/d in 2015 to 17.4 Bcf/d in 2016.  For the fourth consecutive year, Pennsylvania saw the largest total gain in annual production, increasing 10.2%, from 13.04 Bcf/d in 2015 to 14.33 Bcf/d in 2016.
• Deliveries of natural gas to consumers in 2016 reached a record level of 25.2 Tcf, or 68.8 Bcf/d, an increase of 0.8% from 2015 deliveries.  This increase was driven by increases in the electric power and industrial sectors.  Deliveries to the electric power sector increased by 3.9% in 2016 to a record level of 27.3 Bcf/d. Deliveries to industrial consumers increased by 2.7% to 21.1 Bcf/d, the highest volume since 2000.  Deliveries of natural gas used as vehicle fuel increased by 6.4% in 2016.  Deliveries to residential consumers decreased  by 5.8% between 2015 and 2016 to 11.9 Bcf/d, and deliveries to commercial consumers decreased by 3.0% to 8.5 Bcf/d.
• Natural gas net imports (imports minus exports) declined for the ninth consecutive year and reached a record low of 671 Bcf in 2016.  U.S. natural gas imports increased between 2015 and 2016 for the second consecutive year. Total imports of natural gas in 2016 were 3,006 Bcf, an increase of 10.6% from 2015, the largest year-to-year increase, percentage-wise, since 1999. Exports of natural gas also increased year to year for the second consecutive year, from 1,784 Bcf in 2015 to 2,335 Bcf in 2016, an increase of 30.9%. Exports of natural gas between 2015 and 2016 experienced the largest year-to-year increase, percentage-wise, since 2011.