Locator: 49938B.
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WTI: $63.85.
New wells reporting:
- Tuesday, February 10, 2026: 16 for the month, 69 for the quarter, 69 for the year,
- Monday, February 9, 2026: 16 for the month, 69 for the quarter, 69 for the year,
- 41815, conf, BR, Rolla 6B,
- 41354, conf, Hess, GO-Dustin Brose-156-98-2932H-3,
- Sunday, February 8, 2026: 14 for the month, 67 for the quarter, 67 for the year,
- 41335, conf, Hess, BW-Stoveland-149-1003H-4,
- Saturday, February 7, 2026: 13 for the month, 66 for the quarter, 66 for the year,
RBN Energy: the sunshine state is a heavyweight in natural gas consumption. Link here. Archived.
Florida
is the nation’s fourth-largest consumer of natural gas, but unlike the
three states ahead of it — Texas, Louisiana and California — the
Sunshine State produces virtually no gas of its own. And get this:
Florida’s gas consumption has tripled over the past 25 years, mostly due
to the development of nearly 30 gigawatts (GW) of new gas-fired power
plants. That buildout spurred the expansion of existing gas pipelines
and the construction of new ones. In today’s RBN blog, we examine
Florida’s remarkable growth and whether additional pipeline capacity
might be needed.
This is an awesome time of year to
go to Florida, so long as you’re OK with alligators, long lines at Walt
Disney World and $38 hamburgers. Hurricane season is long past, the
weather is balmy, and February is one of the driest months, so the odds
are good that your round of golf or afternoon at the beach won’t be
marred by a nasty thunderstorm. If you haven’t visited in a few years,
you’ll be amazed at how crowded it is. The state is now home to more
than 24 million (up from 16 million in 2000), and during the winter
months “snowbirds” from up north swell the population by a million or so
and shorter-term tourists add another half-a-mil, mostly in Orlando and
along the coasts.
All
that growth — and the shift away from coal-fired generation to other
sources — has helped to transform Florida’s energy profile, especially
gas. Back in 2000, the state’s natural gas consumption averaged just
under 1.5 Bcf/d; by 2024-25, usage had 3X’ed to more than 4.6 Bcf/d. Gas
consumption there is heavily weighted toward power generation. As shown
in Figure 1 below, an astonishing 87% (blue bar segments) is now used
to fuel gas-fired combined-cycle and combustion-turbine units the
state’s electric utilities have been building with abandon, mostly to
keep pace with the double-headed monster of population growth and
air-conditioning demand. The rest is split between industrial use
(orange bar segments; 8%) and residential/commercial (res/comm; green
bar segments; 5%).
