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Section 1. Energy overview.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note 1. Primary Energy Production. Primary energy production consists of coal production, waste coal supplied, and coal refuse recovery; crude oil and lease condensate production; natural gas plant liquids production; natural gas (dry) production; nuclear ...
Section 2. Energy consumption by sector.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note 1. Energy Consumption Data and Surveys. Most of the data in this section of the Monthly Energy Review (MER) are developed from a group of energy-related surveys, typically called "supply surveys," conducted by the Energy Information Administration ...
Section 3. Petroleum.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note 1. Survey Respondents. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) uses a number of sources and methods to maintain the survey respondent lists. On a regular basis, survey managers review such industry publications as the Oil & Gas Journal and Oil ...
Section 4. Natural gas.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note 1. Production. Annual data--Final annual data are from the Energy Information Aministration (EIA) Natural Gas Annual (NGA). Estimated monthly data--Data for the two most recent months presented are estimated. Some of the data ...
Section 5. Crude oil and natural gas resource development.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note. Crude Oil and Natural Gas Exploratory and Development Wells. Three well types are considered in the Monthly Energy Review (MER) drilling statistics: "completed for crude oil," "completed for natural gas," and "dry hole." Wells that productively ...
Section 6. Coal.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note 1. Production. Preliminary monthly estimates of national coal production are the sum of weekly estimates developed by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and published in the Weekly Coal Production report. When a week extends into a new month, ...
Section 7. Electricity.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note. Classification of Power Plants Into Energy-Use Sectors. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) classifies power plants (both electricity-only and combined-heat-and-power plants) into energy-use sectors based on the North American Industry ...
Section 8. Nuclear energy.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note 1. A reactor is generally defined as operable while it possessed a full-power license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or its predecessor the Atomic Energy Commission, or equivalent permission to operate, at the end of the year or month shown ....
Section 9. Energy prices.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note 1. The average domestic first purchase price represents the average price at which all domestic crude oil is purchased. Prior to February 1976, the price represented an estimate of the average of posted prices; beginning with February 1976, the price ...
Section 10. Renewable energy.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Note. Renewable Energy Production and Consumption. In Table 10.1, renewable energy consumption consists of: conventional hydroelectricity net generation (converted to Btu using the fossil-fueled plants heat rate); geothermal electricity net generation ...
Section 11. International petroleum.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tables 11.1a and 11.1b Sources United States See Table 3.1. All Other Countries and World, Monthly Data 1973-1980: Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIM), Oil & Gas Journal (OGJ), and EIA adjustments. ...
Appendix A. Thermal conversion factors.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... The thermal conversion factors presented in the following tables can be used to estimate the heat content in British thermal units (Btu) of a given amount of energy measured in physical units, such as barrels or cubic feet. For example, 10 barrels of asphalt has a heat content of ...
Appendix B. Thermal metric and other conversion factors.(Table)
May 01, 2008 ... Data presented in the Monthly Energy Review and in other Energy Information Administration publications are expressed predominately in units that historically have been used in the United States, such as British thermal units, barrels, cubic feet, and short tons. However, because U.S ....
Glossary.(Glossary)
May 01, 2008 ... Alcohol: The family name of a group of organic chemical compounds composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. The series of molecules vary in chain length and are composed of a hydrocarbon plus a hydroxyl group; CH(3)-(CH(2))n-OH (e.g., methanol, ethanol, and tertiary butyl alcohol). See ...