North American Natural Gas Production by State and Province [OC]

[u/Orennia]

[u/Roquet_]

Isn't Mexico part of North America?

[u/z64_dan → u/Roquet_]

Mexico produces around 3-4 bcf per day. USA produces about 100 bcf per day, so it probably just wasn't statistically significant.

[u/Roquet_ → u/z64_dan]

It certainly isn't much but North America is North America

[u/hallese]

This is also illustrates why North Dakota can afford to spend more money per student than any of its neighbors.

[u/Orennia]

Source: US Energy Information Administration, Natural Resources Canada
Tool: Adobe
More Information: North American Gas | Orennia

[u/Oddyseous420]

Nice, now I'd like to compare it to how much each state/province uses.

[u/SinoSoul]

Wait, if Texas makes that much gas htf were so many homes freezing during that winter storm a couple of years back?

[u/Pumpnethyl → u/SinoSoul]

Poor cold weather prep of the distribution equipment. Systems offline and poor planning

[u/KingMe87 → u/SinoSoul]

Most homes in Texas have electric heat

[u/z64_dan → u/KingMe87]

Yep about 61% use electricity for their main source of heat.

And that was enough (plus our power grid not being properly winterized which also shut down production) to throw Texas into a blackout for a couple days.

[u/KingMe87 → u/z64_dan]

I would add that lots of south texas homes don’t even have central heat and just use space heaters. 

[u/z64_dan → u/KingMe87]

And if they do have central heat, a lot of them don't have heat pumps (way more efficient).

[u/RyRyShredder → u/KingMe87]

Even if they are gas the controllers are electric, so when the power goes out you are still screwed.

[u/SinoSoul → u/KingMe87]

Interesting. Did not know that. Thanks

[u/mirach → u/SinoSoul]

You still need electricity to run most gas heating. No electricity because gas plants went down because Republicans didn't require them to winterize even though they knew it was a risk and had issues in the past.

[u/Roquet_ → u/SinoSoul]

I'm not familiar with that particular case but gas being excavated is only the first step, it needs to be sold and delivered and harsh conditions can break supply chains.

[u/Brian_Corey__ → u/SinoSoul]

Ever run a furnace with no electricity? No thermostat? No blower? Doesn’t work at all.

[u/lart2150]

Now do a ratio of NG to Oil production.

[u/Upbeat-Escape-7200]

Why not more output in Appalachia

[u/crapslock → u/Upbeat-Escape-7200]

Probably due to the geology i'd imagine. Gas pocket distribution maybe.

[u/ardent_wolf]

My only critique is that it doesn't show where the two named gas deposits are. 

[u/Ooofy_Doofy_]

Blue states leaving money on the table by refusing to build their own natural gas plants and instead importing it from other states

[u/b1argg → u/Ooofy_Doofy_]

Or maybe build clean energy sources instead