{"id":125166,"date":"2026-02-27T15:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:37:06","slug":"pennsylvania-natural-gas-production-jumps-5-1-largest-gain-since-2021-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125166\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania natural gas production jumps 5.1%, largest gain since 2021 \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Natural gas production in Pennsylvania rose 5.1% in 2025, the largest increase since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Independent Fiscal Office\u2019s annual natural gas production report released Wednesday found 7.76 billion cubic feet of production and 446 new wells begun in 2025. The number of new wells that began in the commonwealth was the first increase in annual totals since 2022, IFO said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Production volume increased all year and the number of wells were higher beginning in the second quarter, even as the average price in Pennsylvania was the highest in the first quarter at $3.69 per thousand British thermal BTUs. The average price in 2025 was $2.83 per thousand BTU, up 70% from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/25\/pennsylvania-natural-gas-production-2025.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/25\/pennsylvania-natural-gas-production-2025.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Natural gas production in Pennsylvania rose 5.1% in 2025, the largest increase since 2021. The Independent Fiscal Office\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7680,20374,58585,58587,58586,28,30,16858,58584,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-125166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-gas","9":"tag-natural-gas","10":"tag-natural-gas-production","11":"tag-natural-gas-production-rate","12":"tag-natural-gas-report","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","15":"tag-pennsylvania-natural-gas","16":"tag-pennsylvania-natural-gas-production","17":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}