Colorado has substantial conventional fossil fuel and renewable energy resources. The Colorado economy is not energy intensive. The transportation and residential sectors are the leading energy-consuming sectors in the State.
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- Seven of the Nations 100 largest natural gas fields and two of its 100 largest oil fields are found in Colorado.
- Colorado is responsible for more than one-fourth of all coalbed methane produced in the United States. Coalbed methane output accounts for about one-half of Colorados natural gas production.
- The Rockies Express Pipeline, set to begin service in January 2008, will help move Colorados rapidly increasing natural gas production to markets in the Midwest.
- Colorados oil shale deposits hold an estimated 1 trillion barrels of oil nearly as much oil as the entire worlds proven oil reserves. However, oil production from those deposits remains speculative.