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U.S. Natural Gas Extraction Loss (MMcf)
Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Year-6 Year-7 Year-8 Year-9
  1930's 75,140 62,288 51,816 48,280 52,190 55,488 61,064 70,210 73,338 73,746
  1940's 79,526 115,464 119,000 121,788 142,868 159,936 165,274 188,734 209,508 224,332
  1950's 259,862 292,400 319,158 340,068 354,348 376,686 418,013 433,636 458,040 498,457
  1960's 542,890 592,446 623,616 670,251 722,565 753,473 739,308 784,534 827,877 866,560
  1970's 906,413 883,127 907,993 916,551 887,490 872,282 854,086 862,563 852,130 807,845
  1980's 776,605 774,562 761,944 789,632 837,863 816,370 799,645 812,320 815,844 784,502
  1990's 784,118 834,637 871,905 886,455 888,500 907,795 958,178 963,704 937,784 972,616
  2000's 1,015,531 953,984 956,992 875,816 926,600 876,497 906,069 873,699

Updated on 6/27/2008
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration
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