U.S. Natural Gas Output Hit a Record High in July - The Wall Street Journal
U.S. Natural Gas Output Hit a Record High in July
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Domestic natural-gas producers set a record for collective output this July, offsetting rising consumption of the fuel to produce electricity.
U.S. gas output topped 3.22 trillion cubic feet in July—about 103.9 billion cubic feet a day, the Energy Information Administration said Friday. That's 3.5% more than a year earlier and the most in government data going back to 1973.
July's production was more than twice the average monthly output between 1972 and 2011, when drillers began to combine hydraulic fracturing with sideways drilling done miles beneath the surface to release a flood of shale gas.
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