EIA: US proved reserves of natural gas increased in 2016, oil reserves remained unchanged
Published by Nicholas Woodroof,
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Hydrocarbon Engineering,
The US had 341.1 trillion ft3 of natural gas proved reserves as of the end of 2016, an increase of 5% from 2015, according to a recently released report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US crude oil and lease condensate proved reserves remained virtually unchanged from their 2015 level, at 35.2 billion barrels.
Proved reserves are those volumes of oil and natural gas that geological and engineering data demonstrate with reasonable certainty to be recoverable in future years from known reservoirs under existing economic and operating conditions. Changes in proved reserves from year to year reflect new discoveries, either in new fields, new reservoirs in old fields, or extensions of existing reservoirs; net revisions and other adjustments to previous reserve estimates; and reductions from annual production of each fuel.
Pennsylvania had the largest net increase in natural gas proved reserves of all states between 2015 and 2016, adding 6.1 trillion ft3 of natural gas proved reserves in the Marcellus Shale play in the Appalachian Basin. Following a record high set in 2015, US production of natural gas decreased 1% between 2015 and 2016 – the first annual decline in US natural gas production in 10 years.
The share of natural gas proved reserves from shale compared with total natural gas increased from 54% to 62% in 2016; this was due to gas reserves being added in several shales, including the Wolfcamp, Marcellus, Eagle Ford, Utica, Woodford, and Haynesville shales.
Texas had the largest net increase in proved reserves of crude oil and lease condensate of all states between 2015 and 2016, adding 941 million barrels of proved crude oil and lease condensate reserves, mostly from development in the Permian Basin. Operators drilled and completed long horizontal wells into the stacked oil-bearing formations of the Spraberry Trend and the Wolfcamp Shale. Between 2015 and 2016, US production of crude oil and lease condensate decreased by 6%.
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