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Weekly US gas consumption recovers on higher power generation use

An increase in power generation use drove up total U.S. natural gas consumption by 2% for the week ended Sept. 11, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said in its Sept. 12 "Natural Gas Weekly Update."

Gas use in the country inched up to 67.8 Bcf/d from the prior week's 66.7 Bcf/d, according to the EIA. Consumption for power generation also rose to 37.5 Bcf/d from 36.3 Bcf/d. Industrial gas use remained essentially flat at 21.5 Bcf/d, compared to 21.4 Bcf/d. Residential and commercial gas use also stayed flat at 8.9 Bcf/d.

Including Mexico exports, pipeline fuel use or losses and LNG pipeline receipts, the total demand edged up to 85.1 Bcf/d from 84.4 Bcf/d in the previous week.

U.S. LNG exports dropped week over week as 10 LNG vessels with a total of 37 Bcf left the country between Sept. 5 and Sept. 11, the EIA reported, citing shipping data compiled by Bloomberg. In the previous week, 12 LNG tankers with a total of 43 Bcf departed the country.

Out of the 10 LNG vessels, five came from Cheniere Energy Inc.'s Sabine Pass terminal in Lousiana, three from its Corpus Christi terminal in Texas and one each from Dominion Energy Inc.'s Cove Point terminal in Maryland and Sempra Energy's Cameron LNG export terminal in Louisiana. Three tankers, one each from Sabine Pass, Cove Point and Freeport LNG Development LP's terminal in Texas, were also loading on Sept. 11.

Total gas supply for the week stayed constant at 96.5 Bcf/d, compared to 96.6 Bcf/d in the prior week. Marketed and dry gas production slightly dropped to 103.6 Bcf/d and 92.0 Bcf/d, respectively, as compared to the earlier week's 103.9 Bcf/d and 92.3 Bcf/d. On the other hand, average net imports from Canada inched up to 4.5 Bcf/d from 4.2 Bcf/d.

Net injections into storage for the week ended Sept. 6 were 78 Bcf, an increase from the five-year average of 73 Bcf and the 68 Bcf recorded during the same week in 2018. Working gas stocks amounted to 3,019 Bcf, which is 77 Bcf lower than the five-year average but 393 Bcf higher than the same period a year ago.