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There are thousands of products and innovations that would not exist without natural gas and oil.
Our industry is essential to maintaining life as we know it in Ohio and around the world.
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Products Made Possible by Natural Gas & Oil
To create the quality of life we enjoy, there is one common denominator – natural gas and oil. It may not always be obvious where or how, but Ohio-made energy is essential to life.
FUEL & TRANSPORTATION
Travel, commerce, and farming wouldn’t be possible without natural gas and oil. Refined petroleum fuels our personal vehicles, planes, public transportation, farming equipment, and our delivery vehicles. It also helps make our rubber tires, seats, plastic framing, and much more.
SCHOOL & WORK
Almost every product in our classrooms and offices such as desks, chairs, computers, printers, ink, pens, pencils, crayons, backpacks, calculators, posters, and more are all made possible thanks to petroleum.
ELECTRICITY
Seven out of ten Ohioans heat their home with natural gas, which provides 43% of the state’s electricity generation – up from just 3% a decade ago.
FOOD & APPLIANCES
Natural gas and oil play a large role in the way we grow, transport, and cook our foods. Fertilizer, herbicides, farming equipment, transportation, packaging, refrigeration, grills, ovens, and microwaves, to name a few, all include components made from gas and oil.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology, such as computers, televisions, cell phones, tablets, and smart watches are essential to our daily lives and include many plastic components. Additionally, the screens are made possible thanks to carbon black – a petroleum product.
MEDICAL
Modern-day medical equipment would not be possible without natural gas and oil. Our ambulances, IV bags, stretchers, artificial hearts and limbs, hand sanitizer, cleaning supplies, medicines, and much more are all made possible thanks to refined petroleum.
SPORTS/RECREATION
Petroleum is a critical component of baseballs, footballs, soccer balls, tennis rackets, fishing poles, cleats, pads, helmets, ice skates, and many more products that make our sports and activities possible.
ENTERTAINMENT/HOBBIES
From snorkel equipment to video games, from puzzles to binoculars, and from paint to skateboard wheels – everything that entertains us relies on natural gas and oil.
TEXTILES
Common fabrics and textiles such as polyester, nylon, acrylic, and spandex are petroleum-based. Common uses of these textiles include clothing, swimsuits, bedding, curtains, upholstery, and more.
CONSTRUCTION
Materials used for construction and home improvement are often derived from natural gas and oil. These include, but are not limited to, paint and paint rollers, tools, asphalt, and roofing shingles, as well as safety equipment such as safety glasses, traffic cones, protective gloves, and hard hats.
Facts & Statistics
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Ohio is the sixth largest natural gas producing state in America.
Ohio is the 12th largest crude oil producing state in America.
Ohio produced 2,254,396,717 mcf of natural gas in 2021.
Ohio produced 18,999,720 barrels of oil in 2021.
Production from the Utica Shale accounts for almost all of the rapid increase in Ohio's natural gas output, which was more than 29 times higher in 2021 than in 2010.
Ohio has the sixth-largest crude oil-refining capacity in the nation, and the state's four refineries can process a combined total of nearly 603,000 barrels of crude oil per calendar day.
The majority of electricity in Ohio is generated by natural gas, which has contributed to a significant reduction is C02 emissions.
Natural gas and oil accounts for over 85% of the energy produced in Ohio.
The first oil well in North America was discovered in 1814 in Noble County, OH.
208,000 jobs in Ohio are directly connected the natural gas and oil industry.
JobsOhio estimates nearly $100B has been invested in the state from shale development.
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If Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia were a country, it would be the world’s 3rd largest natural gas producer.
Natural gas production from shale formations in the Appalachian Basin that spans Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio has been growing since 2008, and monthly production has set new record highs.
The Appalachian Basin contains two shale formations, Marcellus and Utica, which accounted for 34% of all U.S. dry natural gas production in the first half of 2021
The Marcellus and Utica Shales have the largest natural gas reserves in the United States.
The Potential Productive Area of the Utica and Marcellus Shales in the Mid-Ohio Valley is nearly the size of Germany.
The Shale Crescent region of the U.S. accounts for 85% of total natural gas production growth between 2008-2018.
The Appalachian Basin is the largest natural gas field in the world and has the lowest methane leak rates in the United States.
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Thanks to horizontal fracturing and U.S. technologies, America is the number one natural gas and oil producer in the world.
The natural gas and oil industry is a driver of every sector of the U.S. economy and supports 11.3 million total American jobs in 2019 across all 50 states. The industry’s total impact on U.S. GDP was nearly $1.7 trillion, accounting for nearly 8 percent of the national total in 2019.
The U.S. leads all countries (and the entire EU) in emissions reduction since 2005. The leading contributor to reducing emissions was coal-to-gas switching, accounting for 61% of all emissions reduction withing the U.S. This effort came at zero cost to U.S. taxpayers, and was the single largest emissions reduction effort in the world.
Thanks to natural gas, the U.S. has the largest, lowest-cost, least emissions-intensive resource in the world.
The United States was long an importer of energy, but natural gas discoveries and production from the shale revolution flipped the country into an exporter. The United State is the second-largest natural gas exporter globally and the second-largest LNG exporter globally. (2021)