{"id":31628,"date":"2013-10-04T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=31628"},"modified":"2013-10-04T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:38:07","slug":"u-s-set-to-be-number-one-in-oil-and-gas-production-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2013\/10\/04\/u-s-set-to-be-number-one-in-oil-and-gas-production-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Set to Be Number One in Oil and Gas Production This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chart by EIA<\/p>

The U.S. is set to be the number one producer of oil and gas this year.<\/p><\/div>\n

The current domestic drilling boom has brought plenty of jobs, traffic and concerns about pollution and sustainability. It’s also put the U.S. in a position that was unimaginable a decade ago: this year, the U.S. will be the number one producer of oil and gas, according to the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA).<\/p>\n

“Since 2008, U.S. petroleum production has\u00a0increased<\/a>\u00a07 quadrillion Btu, with dramatic growth in Texas and North Dakota. Natural gas production has\u00a0increased<\/a>\u00a0by 3 quadrillion Btu over the same period, with much of this growth coming from the eastern United States,” the EIA says in an analysis<\/a> today. Production has also been up for Russia and Saudi Arabia, but not nearly the same amount. The U.S. and Russia had been neck and neck for the past few years; this year, the U.S. struck a clear lead in fossil fuel production.<\/p>\n

The increase in domestic production is due largely in part to the use of drilling techniques like hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and horizontal drilling. Those methods — largely proven viable in Texas — have allowed large domestic deposits of oil and gas to be reached. Texas has taken the lead in that domestic production, and is projected <\/a>to continue to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current domestic drilling boom has brought plenty of jobs, traffic and concerns about pollution and sustainability. It’s also put the U.S. in a position that was unimaginable a decade ago: this year, the U.S. will be the number one producer of oil and gas, according to the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA). “Since 2008, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[15,22,21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31628"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31633,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31628\/revisions\/31633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}