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U.S. Natural Gas Exploratory and Developmental Wells Drilled (Number of Elements)
U.S. Natural Gas Exploratory and Developmental Wells Drilled (Number of Elements)
Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Year-6 Year-7 Year-8 Year-9
  1940's 3,363
  1950's 3,439 3,438 3,514 3,968 4,038 4,266 4,531 4,475 5,005 4,931
  1960's 5,149 5,486 5,353 4,570 4,694 4,482 4,377 3,659 3,456 4,083
  1970's 4,011 3,971 5,440 6,933 7,138 8,127 9,409 12,122 14,413 15,254
  1980's 17,461 20,250 19,076 14,684 17,338 14,324 8,599 8,096 8,578 9,522
  1990's 11,126 9,611 8,305 10,174 9,739 8,454 9,539 11,186 11,127 11,121
  2000's 16,242 21,403 16,728 19,522 21,816 27,014 31,587 32,910

Release Date: 9/2/2008
Next Release Date: 10/2/2008

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