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Production and Reserves for Dominion Resources and Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas

  Dominion Resources Louis Dreyfus Combined U.S. Total Percent of U.S. Total
Dominion Resources Louis Dreyfus Combined
(million barrels) (percent)
2000 U.S. oil and natural gas liquids production 6 3 9 2,968 0.2 0.1 0.3
2000 U.S. oil and natural gas liquids reserves 51 33 84 NA NM NM NM
1999 U.S. oil and natural gas liquids reserves 1 28 29 29,671 0.0 0.1 0.1
  (billion cubic feet) (percent)
2000 U.S. dry natural gas production 222 120 342 19,320 1.1 0.6 1.8
2000 U.S. dry natural gas reserves 1,858 1,608 3,466 NA NM NM NM
1999 U.S. dry natural gas reserves 600 1,294 1,894 167,406 0.4 0.8 1.1

NA = not available, NM = not meaningful.

Note:   Reserves are at year-end.

Source:   Company information: 2000 reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 10-K; U.S. totals: Liquids production: Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Supply Monthly (April 2001), Table S1; Gas production: Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas Monthly (August 2001), Table 1 (pdf format, please follow the Adobe link below and download the free software if you lack Adobe Acrobat Reader and are unable to read pdf format files) ; Reserves: Energy Information Administration, U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Reserves, 1999, Tables 1 and 12.

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Last Updated on 09/18/2001
By Financial Analysis Team, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, Energy Information Administration
Email: larry.spancake@eia.doe.gov