West Africa produced 5% of the world's crude oil in 2002, according to Energy Information Agency data.
The Energy Information Agency earlier this year estimated that exporting gas would raise the price of the commodity domestically.
The U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) estimates that natural gas consumption for power generation will be 83% higher in 2030 compared to 2009.
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However, most U.S. electricity is created from burning fossil fuels -- about 70 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency of the Department of Energy.
In New England, where Kosmo operates, 6.3 million households rely on heating oil to stay warm in the winter, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA).
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In the past 10 years natural gas fired generation has grown 61% while coal fired generation has shrunk by 17%, according to the US Energy Information Agency.
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In addition, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency, the U.S. has reduced its energy consumption per unit of GDP by nearly 50% since 1980 and 20% since 1999.
According to a 2009 Energy Information Agency Report on Electricity Generation, wind power provided only 70 billion kWh of the total U.S. 3, 953 kWh supply (1.79% of generated power).
To put that in perspective, the Energy Information Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Energy, estimates the country annually consumes 100 quads (lingo for quadrillion British thermal units)y.
The number is now around 19 million, with the Energy Information Agency forecasting Monday that U.S. oil demand will likely end the year at 19.03 million barrels daily, a 150, 000 barrels a day decline from 2010.
Earlier this week there was some chatter about how the Energy Information Agency had discovered a flaw in its accounting of natural gas in the ground, and that potentially there could be a lot less than thought.
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While Australia is the best part of 10-years behind the U.S. in terms of exploring for and developing its unconventional oil and gas potential it is a country which featured prominently in a 2011 analysis of world shale gas potential by the U.S. Energy Information Agency.
The chart on the right takes data from the US Energy Information Agency and plots total US inventories of crude plus all other categories of liquid hydrocarbons, and shows the change between the week ending on the x-axis date, and the inventories for the like week of 2010.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful, but the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency says it has information suggesting Iran has carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device".
Programs like Energy Star, a joint undertaking of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy, have sought to provide such information in the past.
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