{"id":519,"date":"2016-04-19T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=519"},"modified":"2016-04-16T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:38:16","slug":"natural-gas-production-in-u-s-reaches-new-high-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/natural-gas-production-in-u-s-reaches-new-high-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas production in U.S. reaches new high in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overall U.S. natural gas production increases from 2014<\/h2>\n<p>Natural gas production in the United States reached a record high last year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a recent report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EIA, natural gas production in the U.S. in 2015 reach 79 billion cubic feet per day &#8212; a record high level. That level of production also represents a 5 percent year-over-year increase from 2014 to 2015.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Energy?src=hash\">#Energy<\/a>:  U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/natgas?src=hash\">#natgas<\/a> production reaches record high in 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yGvvazotht\">https:\/\/t.co\/yGvvazotht<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/shalegas?src=hash\">#shalegas<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8vTnR8eeK2\">pic.twitter.com\/8vTnR8eeK2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EIA (@EIAgov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EIAgov\/status\/720954167351709696\">April 15, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Five states lead the charge<\/h3>\n<p>Natural gas production declined in the majority of U.S. states in 2015, the EIA noted. However, gas production in five states ramped up and ending up offsetting these declines &#8212; and then some.<\/p>\n<p>Production in Ohio, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia accounted for 35 percent of total U.S. natural gas production last year.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio production grew significantly &#8212; 41 percent on a yearly basis.<\/p>\n<h3>Renewable energy vs. natural gas<\/h3>\n<p>Wind energy and solar energy <a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wind-natural-gas-solar-all-had-a-big-2015\/\" title=\"combined to make up two-thirds of new energy in U.S. in 2015\"><strong>combined to make up two-thirds of new energy in U.S. in 2015<\/strong><\/a>, but natural gas wasn&#8217;t far behind. <\/p>\n<p>While wind account for 41 percent of new electricity capacity, and solar accounted for 26 percent, natural gas held its own, as well, <a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wind-natural-gas-solar-all-had-a-big-2015\/\" title=\"accounting for 30 percent\"><strong>accounting for 30 percent<\/strong><\/a> of new electricity capacity last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inlink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wind-natural-gas-solar-all-had-a-big-2015\/\" title=\"Wind, natural gas & solar all had a big 2015\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/wind-turbines-field_o9h5jh-150x150.jpg\" title=\"Wind, natural gas & solar all had a big 2015\" alt=\"Wind, natural gas & solar all had a big 2015\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wind-natural-gas-solar-all-had-a-big-2015\/\" title=\"Wind, natural gas & solar all had a big 2015\"><h4>Wind, natural gas & solar all had a big 2015<\/h4><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wind-natural-gas-solar-all-had-a-big-2015\/\" title=\"Wind, natural gas & solar all had a big 2015\" class=\"hide375\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Orginally published on &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-wisdom.com\/news\/u-s-natural-gas-production-breaks-records-in-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">E-Wisdom<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production in Ohio, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia accounted for 35 percent of total U.S. natural gas production last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}