Natural gas deliveries to US LNG export facilities set record in July, EIA reports
Natural gas deliveries to U.S. facilities producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) for export set a monthly record in July, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said yesterday.
Deliveries to U.S. facilities producing LNG for export averaged 6 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), which accounts for 7 percent of the total U.S. dry natural gas production, according to data from OPIS PointLogic Energy.
Natural gas delivered by pipelines to Mexico and to U.S. LNG export facilities reached 10.9 Bcf/d in July and averaged 10.0 Bcf/d in the first seven months of the year, 30 percent more than in the same period of 2018.
EIA estimates that U.S. LNG exports set new records in June and July 2019 at 4.8 Bcf/d and 5.2 Bcf/d, respectively, based on tanker loadings data from Bloomberg L.P.
Natural gas feedstock deliveries to LNG export terminals averaged 5.5 Bcf/d in June and 6.0 Bcf/d in July. This implies that approximately 15 percent of the natural gas feedstock sent to LNG facilities was used as fuel in the liquefaction process, EIA said.
Current total U.S. LNG export capacity is 5.4 Bcf/d across four facilities and nine liquefaction trains.
Two new liquefaction trains, Cameron LNG Train 1 in Louisiana and Corpus Christi LNG Train 2 in Texas, came online during the first half of 2019. Two new LNG export facilities, Elba Island LNG in Georgia and Freeport LNG in Texas, plan to place their first trains in service within the next two months.
