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For Immediate Release
November 5, 2009

WASHINGTON - Today, the Independent Petroleum Association of American (IPAA) released its annual Oil & Gas Producing Industry in Your State publication. Representing the 78^th volume, this year's document provides critical facts and statistics for policymakers, regulators and the media about oil and gas production in each producing state. Specifically, the handbook includes industry employment, state rankings, exploration and production, price, and consumption trends and statistics, as well as other key oil and gas data, figures and maps.

"A lot of hard work and hours of important research made this year's publication another great success," said Barry Russell, IPAA's president and CEO. "The biggest thanks, though, goes to the hard-working men and women that go to work each day to ensure that our nation has the oil and gas it needs to continue to move. In these challenging and difficult economic times, we are fortunate that energy prices have remained stable, thanks in large part to the work America's independent oil and gas producers perform."

"The Oil & Gas Producing Industry In Your State is published each year as the special statistical issue of America's Independent, official magazine of the Independent Petroleum Association of America," writes IPAA's Vice President of Economics & International Affairs Frederick Lawrence in the publication.

Here are several key facts from the document:

• The U.S. oil & gas industry employs 1,897,947 workers
• The top crude oil producing states/regions: federal offshore (Gulf of Mexico); Texas; Alaska
• The top natural gas producing states/regions: Texas, federal offshore; Wyoming
• The top oil producing congressional districts: Alaska at large; California-22; Texas-11
• The top natural gas producing congressional districts: Wyoming at large; Colorado-3; New Mexico-3
• The U.S. oil & gas industry paid $10,108,535 in severance and production taxes in 2007

NOTE: To view this document online, click HERE.

**Please note that this Oil and Gas Producing Industry In Your State publication reflects 2007 data.