The U.S. LNG industry centered on the Gulf Coast has led to rocketing increases in the country’s natural gas demand since Lower 48 exports began from Louisiana in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Even as severe seasonal heat events have increased in frequency and unconventional natural gas production has given rise to regional increases in natural gas-fired generation across the United States, the EIA’s latest analysis shows liquefied natural gas is still driving the biggest increases in demand.

From 2012 to 2022, U.S. gas demand increased 43%, or by 34.5 Bcf/day. EIA analysts ascribed almost half of that additional demand to states that have become host to the majority of the country’s LNG export terminals.

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