Imports are reported by state of initial receipt and do necessarily indicate state

of consumption.

Note:

Production data are on a "dry" gas basis. State production data do not add to

national totals because of difficulties in correlating state production data with

data on the extraction of gas liquids. This discrepancy, nationwide is 115

billion cubic feet.

Supply and demand items do not balance because of changes in underground storage
and transmission losses. U.S. totals for these items are 398 billion cubic feet
and 223 billion cubic feet respectively.

Projected Role of the Outer Continental Shelf in Meeting Future National Energy

(Coal, Hydropower, Nuclear power) trillion BTU

16,647

23,777

Percent of Total Energy

24.2

26.8

29,314
29.0

1/ BLM projections, based on Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Tentative Leasing Schedule.

OIL IMPORTS, 1970

In 1970, the United States imported 483,293,000 barrels of crude oil as reported by the Bureau of Mines in their December 1970 Monthly Petroleum Statement, Table 15, page 16. The distribution by Petroleum Administration District for Defense (PAD) and Country of Origin is as follows: