US gas production suffers biggest drop in a decade amid

US gas production suffers biggest drop in a decade amid powerful winter storm

U.S. natural gas production suffered its biggest daily drop in more than a decade on Friday, as unseasonably cold temperatures froze liquids in pipelines and forced wells to close, Bloomberg reports.

They said heating oil and power production in the continental US fell by nearly 300 million cubic meters from the previous day, about 10%, after temperatures in major producing areas, including key supplier Texas, fell below zero.

Meanwhile, internal gas demand shot to its highest single-day level since early 2019.

The magnitude of the storm, recorded from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande on the border with Mexico, is virtually unprecedented: around 60% of the population was on some sort of alert or weather warning. indicates RT in Spanish.

According to the specialist portal PowerOutage.us, there are currently more than 260,000 power outages across the country.

The death toll from Storm Elliot, which has brought freezing temperatures across much of the Midwest and eastern United States, now rises to at least 22 after seven states in the North American country confirmed deaths in the past few hours. According to local media such as the Los Angeles Times, many of these people died in traffic accidents or from frostbite when they were trapped in their vehicles during the blizzard.