With an eighth export terminal coming online, two more starting up, and the Trump administration eager to pump up the volume, demand for U.S. gas has swelled.
Surging global demand for natural gas and the buildout of a new Louisiana export terminal highlight a record-setting March for United States gas producers, according to London Stock Exchange Group data.
In March, U.S. producers exported nearly 9.25 percent more liquefied natural gas (LNG) than they did in December 2024, surpassing the previous export record set less than three months ago.
Europeans again paced the market, purchasing more than 70 percent of Marchâs exports, despite the percentage of LNG they purchased actually declining from more than 80 percent in February.
As much as a third of U.S. LNG exports now go to Asian buyers, primarily in Japan, South Korea, and India, an increasing overall percentage of exports despite China dramatically scaling back its LNG imports from American producers.
It produced more than 9 percent of exported LNG in March, East Daleyâs Data Center Demand Monitor documents.
Plaquemines is the eighth LNG export terminal to go online in the United States. All are in Texas and Louisiana on the Gulf of America.
More liquefaction plants and export terminals are being proposed and built, with a new port operation set for Alaska at the end of an 800-mile pipeline, and others being considered in several West Coast and mid-Atlantic ports, including Philadelphia.
Proposals to build an export terminal in the Philadelphia area along the Delaware River have been circulating since at least 2017, with sites in Chester and Marcus Hook in Pennsylvania, and in Gibbstown, New Jersey, among prospective projects.
âItâs been hope and a dream for a long time,â Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association President and Executive Director Dan Weaver told The Epoch Times in April. âWeâre working on it.â
President Donald Trumpâs lifting of the Biden administrationâs LNG export permit pause as part of a series of executive orders issued since assuming office on Jan. 20 has cleared the way for six Gulf of America LNG export projects to proceed.
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Trumpâs energy policies seek to âunleashâ fossil fuel development, especially natural gas, to lower domestic electricity costs and pay down the nationâs near-$37 trillion debt.
During CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston in March, the largest annual gathering of global oil and gas executives in the United States, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright ceremoniously signed an order approving a LNG export permit extension for Delfin LNG LLC, giving it until June 2029 to begin operations.
The permit had idled under the Biden administration with timelines set to expire, forcing Delfin to resubmit its request, a delay that could add years to the approval process.
The administration supports âanything to make it easier to produce new oil and gasâ to lower costs, Wright said.
âMore energy means better lives,â he said.
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