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Yergin: US nears status as world's largest LNG exporter in six years

Dr. Daniel Yergin · Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire? · Sep 22, 2022 · at 15:06

Dr. Daniel Yergin, energy historian and author, discusses the rapid rise of the United States as a dominant global LNG exporter with host Jason Bordoff.

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“It was only in 2016 that the first cargo of LNG left the United States, and today the U.S. Is, or is close to being the world's largest exporter of LNG”

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The claim, plainly

The first cargo of LNG left the United States in 2016, and by 2022 the U.S. is or is close to being the world's largest exporter of LNG.

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Assessment

Dr. Daniel Yergin's claim contains two linked assertions, both of which are fully supported by energy trade data. First, the modern era of commercial U.S. LNG exports commenced on February 24, 2016, when the first export cargo from the contiguous United States departed Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana aboard the 'Asia Vision'. Second, regarding the ranking in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and CEDIGAZ reported that the U.S. became the world's largest LNG exporter during the first half of 2022. For the full year 2022, Bloomberg vessel-tracking data showed the U.S. tied with Qatar as the #1 global exporter (at ~81.2 million tonnes), while GIIGNL and CEDIGAZ data placed the U.S. a close third (75.4 MT vs. Qatar's 79.0 MT and Australia's 78.5 MT, dampened by the mid-2022 Freeport LNG outage). Thus, the U.S. was indeed the world's largest or close to the world's largest LNG exporter in 2022.

EIA and Cheniere Energy records confirm the first commercial LNG export cargo from the lower 48 U.S. departed Sabine Pass on February 24, 2016.
EIA/CEDIGAZ data confirmed the United States was the world's largest LNG exporter in the first half of 2022 (averaging 11.2 Bcf/d).
Full-year 2022 trade data from Bloomberg (tied #1 with Qatar at 81.2 MT) and GIIGNL (ranked #3 with 75.4 MT, narrowly behind Qatar and Australia) confirm the U.S. was either #1 or close to the world's largest exporter.

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[1] eia.gov [2] eia.gov [3] cheniere.com [4] spe.org [5] eia.gov [6] energytech.com [7] facebook.com [8] downtoearth.org.in

US largest LNG exporter 2022 EIA GIIGNL CEDIGAZ EIA Sabine Pass first LNG export cargo February 2016 US LNG exports 2022 ranking Qatar Australia EIA "2022" "LNG exports" "Australia" "Qatar" "United States" "GIIGNL" OR "Cedigaz" "world's largest LNG exporter in 2022" EIA OR CEDIGAZ OR Bloomberg

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