Natural Gas Meeting Nearly One-Quarter of U.S. Energy Consumption, EIA Says

摘要

U.S. primary energy consumption totaled 7.66 quadrillion Btu in May, and natural gas met 24.1% of that demand, a 0.8% increase from a year earlier, according to preliminary estimates compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). According to summary data released Wednesday in its latest Monthly Energy Review (MER) - the agency’s primary report of recent energy statistics - petroleum met 38.4% (1.84 quadrillion Btu) of the nation’s energy consumption, the same mark it set one year earlier when it supplied 2.94 quadrillion Btu to meet total energy consumption of 7.66 quadrillion Btu.