据油价网6月27日消息称，EIA周二表示，在2012到2022年的十年间，美国墨西哥湾沿岸液化天然气出口的增加推动了美国天然气需求增长43%。

2012年至2022年间，美国对天然气的需求(包括国内消费和总出口)增长了43%，即345亿立方英尺/天(Bcf/d)，其中得克萨斯州和路易斯安那州的需求飙升了116%。

EIA在其分析中表示，得克萨斯州和路易斯安那州的天然气总需求增加了160亿立方英尺/天，这主要是由于美国墨西哥湾沿岸液化天然气出口对原料气的需求增加。

2016年，美国开始出口液化天然气，当时第一个液化天然气出口终端切尼尔能源位于路易斯安那州的Sabine Pass开始运营。切尼尔能源认为，从那时起，该设施的六条生产线已经生产了2000多批液化天然气货物。这六条生产线有能力将超过47亿立方英尺/天的天然气加工成液化天然气。

EIA指出，自Sabine Pass投产以来，路易斯安那州和得克萨斯州的其他出口终端开始出口液化天然气，推动了天然气需求的大部分增长。

根据本月早些时候EIA的短期能源展望(STEO)，美国液化天然气出口量预计将从去年的105.9亿立方英尺/天增加到今年的120.7亿立方英尺/天，2024年将增加到127.3亿立方英尺/天。去年，自由港液化天然气在2022年6月后关闭。

曹海斌 译自 油价网

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LNG Exports Have Sent U.S. Natural Gas Demand Surging This Decade

Rising exports of LNG from the U.S. Gulf Coast drove a 43% surge in U.S. natural gas demand in the decade to 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday.

Demand for natural gas in America – including for domestic consumption and gross exports – jumped by 43%, or by 34.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), between 2012 and 2022, as demand in Texas and Louisiana soared by 116%.

Texas and Louisiana saw their combined natural gas demand jump by 16 Bcf/d—a surge that was largely driven by the higher demand for feedgas for LNG exports out of the U.S. Gulf Coast, the EIA said in its analysis.

The U.S. began exporting LNG in 2016, when the first LNG export terminal, Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass in Louisiana, began operations. Since then, the six trains operating at the facility have produced more than 2,000 LNG cargoes, Cheniere says. The six trains have the capacity to process more than 4.7 Bcf/d of natural gas into LNG.

Since Sabine Pass came online, other export terminals in both Louisiana and Texas began exporting LNG, prompting most of the growth in natural gas demand, the EIA noted.

U.S. LNG exports are expected to increase, from 10.59 Bcf/d last year, when Freeport LNG was shut down after June 2022, to 12.07 Bcf/d this year, and to 12.73 Bcf/d in 2024, per the Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) of the EIA from earlier this month.