![]() The natural gas industry includes exploration for, production, processing, transportation, storage, and marketing of natural gas and natural gas liquids. Marketed natural gas production in 2015 was 28.8 trillion cubic feet, a 5.4 percent increase over 2014, and a 52 percent increase over the production of 18.9 trillion cubic feet in 2005. US natural gas production achieved new record highs for each year from 2011 through 2015. With 7,545 billion cubic feet (BCF), the leading gas-producing area in the United States in 2013 was Texas, followed by Pennsylvania (3,259 BCF), and Louisiana (2,407 BCF). In 2013, the country produced 30.0 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of marketed gas. In 2012, the United States produced 25.3 trillion cubic feet of marketed natural gas, with an average wellhead value of $2.66 per thousand cubic feet, for a total wellhead value of $67.3 billion. Natural gas has been the largest source of electrical generation in the United States since July 2015. ![]() ![]() Natural gas was the United States' largest source of energy production in 2016, representing 33 percent of all energy produced in the country. Discovered shale gas deposits as of June 2016 ![]()
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