The United States, the world's top natural gas producer, wants to send more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe to help its allies break their dependence on Russian gas after Moscow invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
But U.S. exports are limited by the country's liquefaction capacity and an ongoing outage at Freeport LNG's plant after the second-biggest U.S. LNG export facility was hit by fire in June.
That is down from around 6.5 bcfd in early June and more than halved from an average of 9.4 bcfd in July 2021. Russia, the world's second biggest gas supplier, produced about 67.9 bcfd in 2021 and exported 24.4 bcfd, most of which went to the European Union . The United States will produce about 96.5 bcfd of gas in 2022 and export about 11.9 bcfd as LNG, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration projections.Freeport LNG estimated the plant, which was consuming about 2 bcfd of gas before it shut, could resume operations by October. Some analysts, however, think the outage will last longer.In 2021, the United States exported a record 9.8 bcfd of gas as LNG with 3.3 bcfd, or 34%, going to Europe. Most U.S.
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