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U.S. Natural Gas Number of Gas and Gas Condensate Wells (Count)
Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Year-6 Year-7 Year-8 Year-9
  1980's 262,483
  1990's 269,790 276,987 276,014 282,152 291,773 298,541 301,811 310,971 316,929 302,421
  2000's 341,678 373,304 387,772 393,327 406,147 425,887 448,641


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