More than 50% of US homes are heated with natural gas.
It is estimated that there are around 1.3 million miles of underground gas pipelines across the United States.
In 2009 in United States, the price of natural gas was little over $4 per thousand cubic feet while in 2008 natural gas had biggest price of more than $13 per thousand cubic feet.
In 2009 United States increased its natural gas production more than any other country in the world. In fact, in 2009 US even managed to overtake Russia as the world's leading natural has producer. According to the EIA, 21 trillion cubic feet of natural gas was produced in the United States in 2009 which accounts to around 90% of total domestic natural gas consumption.
According to EIA there are 2,587 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas in the United States. U.S. natural gas reserves have been historically concentrated around Texas and the Gulf of Mexico but with the recent shale gas discovery some other US states are expected to play big role as natural gas producers such as New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
According to the most recent calculations US accounts for around 3 percent of the world total natural gas reserves.
It is estimated that around 59 percent of the U.S. undiscovered natural gas resources is located on federal lands and offshore waters.
The top natural gas consuming US states are Texas, California and Louisiana.
Natural gas accounts for around 21,5% of electricity generated in United States.
Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming are the top US natural gas producing states accounting to around 80% of total US natural gas production.
95 percent of U.S. natural gas imports are coming from Canada.
Five US states have around one-half of the total US natural gas reserves: Alaska, Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
If US continues with current production rates it will have enough natural gas for about a 65-year supply.
There are currently around 288,000 wells in US that are producing natural gas.
In 2008, according to the data from the Natural Gas Supply Association there were approximately four million Americans employed either directly or indirectly by the US natural gas industry.
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