美国60年来首次成为天然气净出口国

中国石化新闻网讯 据美国彭博新闻社1月11日纽约报道，美国的贸易不平衡稍微小了一点。美国按年比现在已成为一个天然气净出口国，这是美国自至少1957年以来首次成为天然气净出口国。

美国能源信息署（EIA）在华盛顿的分析师维多利亚·扎尔兹卡娅说，美国去年平均日净出口0.4万亿立方英尺天然气，而2016年平均每天净进口18亿立方英尺天然气。她说，EIA将在周四的一份报告中正式发布这些数字。

维多利亚周三通过电邮说，通过管道向墨西哥输送天然气的“显著增长”以及越来越多的液化天然气（LNG）运往世界各地都应确保这一趋势向前发展。

目前美国只有单一一个LNG出口设施在运营，这就是钱尼尔能源公司位于路易斯安那州的萨宾帕斯终端。另外两个终端计划在今年年内启动。

李峻 编译自 彭博新闻社

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U.S. becomes a net gas exporter for the first time in 60 years

America’s trade imbalance just got a bit smaller. The U.S. has now become a net exporter of natural gas on an annual basis for the first time since at least 1957.

Net exports averaged about 0.4 Bcfd last year, flipping from net inflows of 1.8 billion in 2016, according to Victoria Zaretskaya, a Washington-based analyst for the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The numbers will be officially released by the agency in a report Thursday, she said.

A “significant projected increase” in natural gas sent by pipeline to Mexico and a growing number of liquefied natural gas shipments to the rest of the world should guarantee the trend moving forward, Zaretskaya said by email on Wednesday.

Now the U.S. has a single LNG export facility operating, Cheniere Energy Inc.’s Sabine Pass terminal in Louisiana. Two others are slated to start this year.