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In 2016, total natural gas proved reserves in the United States increased by 5% from 324.3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) to 341.1 Tcf—an increase of 16.8 Tcf. Over the same period, while proved reserves of U.S. crude oil and lease condensate rose 3% onshore in the Lower 48 states, declines in oil reserves in Alaska and the Federal Offshore led to virtually the same total U.S. crude oil and lease condensate at year-end 2016, at 35.2 billion barrels. Despite increasing prices later in 2016, the average first-of-the-month prices used to calculate reserves dropped for both natural gas (down 6%) and …
View Full ResourceThis report summarizes a one-day CSIS-International Energy Agency (IEA) workshop held in May 2017, with government, industry, and policy experts exploring the outlook for natural gas markets in the global energy landscape. The workshop addressed key issues concerning the role of natural gas in North America, as well as the evolving strategic role of U.S. natural gas exports and liquefied natural gas markets (LNG) in the global energy system. The workshop was the third in a three-part workshop series, with the first workshop examining key issues concerning the role of U.S. tight oil production in the global economy and the …
View Full ResourceCongressional interest in U.S. energy policy has often focused on ways through which the United States could secure more economical, reliable, and cleaner fossil fuel resources both domestically and internationally. Recent expansion in natural gas production, primarily as a result of new or improved technologies (e.g., hydraulic fracturing, directional drilling) used on unconventional resources (e.g., shale, tight sands, and coalbed methane) has made natural gas an increasingly significant component in the U.S. energy supply. This expansion, however, has prompted questions about the potential impacts of natural gas systems on human health and the environment, including impacts on air quality.
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View Full ResourceNatural Gas Information 2017 includes detailed and comprehensive annual data of natural gas supply, demand and trade up to 2015, with provisional data for 2016. For OECD countries, it also contains data of gas consumption by end-use sector up to 2015 and of import and end-use prices up to 2016. For non-OECD countries, data for 2015 are based on data submitted by national administrations, on other available data and on estimates made by the IEA Secretariat: 2016 data for non-OECD countries are estimated by the IEA Secretariat..
This overview from Natural Gas Information 2017 contains a summary of the most …
View Full ResourceCongressional interest in U.S. energy policy has often focused on ways through which the United States could secure more economical, reliable, and cleaner fossil fuel resources both domestically and internationally. Recent expansion in natural gas production, primarily as a result of new or improved technologies (e.g., hydraulic fracturing, directional drilling) used on unconventional resources (e.g., shale, tight sands, and coalbed methane) has made natural gas an increasingly significant component in the U.S. energy supply. This expansion, however, has prompted questions about the potential impacts of natural gas systems on human health and the environment, including impacts on air quality.
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View Full ResourceThe new US presidential administration of Donald J. Trump and the newly elected Congress will have an opportunity to reassess the country’s domestic natural gas policies and its natural gas diplomacy strategy in the face of transformed global natural gas markets. Natural gas is on the verge of becoming a global commodity, a development that has been spearheaded by a boom in US shale gas production, the growth of the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade, and a buildup of gas transport infrastructure worldwide. As a result of the shale boom, the United States has emerged as the world’s greatest …
View Full ResourceThis report provides information on the natural gas industry and the types and sources of air pollutants in the sector. It examines the role of the federal government in regulating these emissions, including the provisions in the Clean Air Act and Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) regulatory activities. It concludes with a brief discussion of the outstanding issues.…
View Full ResourceA number of legislative proposals designed to increase domestic energy supply, enhance security, and/or amend the requirements of environmental statutes that apply to energy development are before the 114th Congress. Proposals range from leasing primarily in the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) via the Proposed Five-Year Program (PP) for FY2017-FY2022 or to implement the Proposed Draft for FY2010-FY2015 (a plan prepared by the Bush Administration), to a proposal to prohibit new fossil fuel leases on federal land. Several proposals include new revenue sharing provisions for coastal states.
A key question in this discussion is how much oil and …
View Full ResourceThe action analyzed in this regulatory impact analysis (RIA) amends the new source performance standards (NSPS) for the oil and natural gas source category by setting standards for both methane and volatile organic compounds (VOC) for certain equipment, processes and activities across this source category. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is including requirements for methane emissions in this rule because methane is a greenhouse gas (GHG), and the oil and natural gas category is the country’s largest emitter of methane. In 2009, the EPA found that by causing or contributing to climate change, GHGs endanger both the public health and …
View Full ResourceThe primary purpose of this white paper is to estimate possible greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with several proposed new interstate natural gas transmission lines that would run through parts of Virginia. By “associated” emissions we mean the major GHG emissions that are estimated to occur (a) from operation of the transmission pipelines, (b) from the upstream stages of production and processing of the natural gas that is intended to go into to those transmission pipelines, and (c) from combustion of the transported natural gas. (The analysis excludes leaks from local distribution lines, which we assume would be avoided if …
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