Tale of Two Neighbors During Covid as U.S. Natural Gas Exports Grow, Canada’s Shrink

Covid-19 shrank Canadian natural gas exports while American sales abroad grew despite the pandemic by reaching multiple international markets in the first nine months of 2020, according to the latest trade scorecard by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

U.S. exports increased by 12.4% to a new high, almost double the Canadian volumes. Canadian exports fell by 7.7%, still confined to the United States during construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities in British Columbia.

Canadian cross-border pipeline deliveries slipped to 1.9 Tcf, or 7 Bcf/d, from January through September 2020 versus 2 Tcf, or 7.6 Bcf/d, in the same period of 2019, according to DOE’s gas regulation division.

U.S. exports climbed to 3.7 Tcf, or 13.6 Bcf/d, in the first nine months of last year...