Oklahoma
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Fast Facts:
Oklahoma is one of the top natural gas-producing States in the Nation.
More than a dozen of the 100 largest natural gas fields in the country are found in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma has six petroleum refineries with a combined capacity of roughly 3 percent of the total U.S. distillation capacity.
Cushing, Oklahoma, is the designated delivery point for NYMEX crude oil futures contracts.
The Oklahoma State Legislature created the Commission on Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells in 1992 to keep State production decline to a minimum.
***Energy Information Administration, Colorado, http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=OK
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