據(jù)油價網(wǎng)6月27日消息稱，EIA周二表示，在2012到2022年的十年間，美國墨西哥灣沿岸液化天然氣出口的增加推動了美國天然氣需求增長43%。

2012年至2022年間，美國對天然氣的需求(包括國內(nèi)消費和總出口)增長了43%，即345億立方英尺/天(Bcf/d)，其中得克薩斯州和路易斯安那州的需求飆升了116%。

EIA在其分析中表示，得克薩斯州和路易斯安那州的天然氣總需求增加了160億立方英尺/天，這主要是由于美國墨西哥灣沿岸液化天然氣出口對原料氣的需求增加。

2016年，美國開始出口液化天然氣，當時第一個液化天然氣出口終端切尼爾能源位于路易斯安那州的Sabine Pass開始運營。切尼爾能源認為，從那時起，該設施的六條生產(chǎn)線已經(jīng)生產(chǎn)了2000多批液化天然氣貨物。這六條生產(chǎn)線有能力將超過47億立方英尺/天的天然氣加工成液化天然氣。

EIA指出，自Sabine Pass投產(chǎn)以來，路易斯安那州和得克薩斯州的其他出口終端開始出口液化天然氣，推動了天然氣需求的大部分增長。

根據(jù)本月早些時候EIA的短期能源展望(STEO)，美國液化天然氣出口量預計將從去年的105.9億立方英尺/天增加到今年的120.7億立方英尺/天，2024年將增加到127.3億立方英尺/天。去年，自由港液化天然氣在2022年6月后關閉。

曹海斌 譯自 油價網(wǎng)

原文如下：

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.