The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated this year will bring the lowest amount of LNG export capacity additions in a decade, exacerbating expectations for a tight global natural gas market through 2025.

In a recent report, EIA researchers projected four liquefied natural gas export projects would come online across the world this year, adding a combined capacity of 1 Bcf/d. Its expectations were based on data from the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers and information from project developers.

If completed, the projects would amount to the fewest additions to global supply since 2013, when around 0.7 Bcf/d of capacity was brought online. EIA researchers wrote that 2023 would likely be the beginning of a three-year streak of “fewer global LNG...