Texas continues to lead the U.S. in energy production, led by the oil and natural gas industry.
In 2021, Texas crude oil accounted for 43% of all U.S. production and 25% of all marketed natural gas production.
Texas also has the greatest number of crude oil refineries and the greatest refining capacity of any state in the U.S. Texas’ 31 petroleum refineries can process a combined nearly 5.9 million barrels of crude oil a day (b/d) – 32% of America’s refining capacity, as of January 2021, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
Texas also produces more electricity than any other state, the EIA reports. In 2021, Texas accounted for about 12% of America’s total electricity net generation.
Btu is short for British thermal unit, which measures the heat content of fuel or energy sources, EIA explains. “A single Btu is very small in terms of the amount of energy a single household or an entire country uses. In 2021, the United States used about 97.33 quadrillion Btu of energy.”
Fossil fuels – petroleum, natural gas, and coal – accounted for roughly 79% of total U.S. energy production in 2021, according to the EIA.
In the first half of 2022, the U.S. became the world’s largest LNG exporter, the EIA reports, led by Texas.
If Texas were its own country, it would be the world’s third largest producer of natural gas and fourth largest producer of oil.
In 2019, total U.S. annual energy production was greater than total annual consumption for the first time since 1957, led in part by Texas production. Production also exceed consumption in 2020 and in 2021, according to the EIA.
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