The U.S. is a leading player in the global energy trade, but resources and populations are distributed widely across its more than 3.8 million square miles of territory.
That means states vary widely in their shares of total production and consumption of energy, with even relatively small and unsuspecting states sometimes playing an outsize role in the sector.The United States is the largest crude oil producer in the world and a top-tier exporter, and although dozens of states and offshore areas produce oil, production is mostly concentrated in a handful of regions.
The two states share the Permian Basin, a high-producing shale basin responsible for around half of all daily oil production.Natural gas production Pennsylvania was No. 2 at around 22% of total production, and Louisiana was third. West Virginia and Oklahoma ranked fourth and fifth in shares of total gas production.Appalachia is synonymous with coal production, and for good reason. The majority of workers employed in the coal sector are located in the East in states such as West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.
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