Highlights



November Natural Gas Monthly, containing data for September 2025

• Normally, we revise the prior two years of monthly data in the Natural Gas Monthly after we publish the Natural Gas Annual (NGA). We have not yet applied these annual adjustments to the 2023 and 2024 data in the November 2025 Natural Gas Monthly publication. We also have not yet updated the annual 2024 consumption and price data in Navigator to match the NGA.
• In September 2025, dry natural gas production increased year over year for the seventh straight month. Preliminary dry natural gas production in September 2025 was 3,247 billion cubic feet (Bcf), or 108.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d). Production was 6.3% (6.4 Bcf/d) higher in September 2025 than in September 2024 (101.8 Bcf/d). Dry natural gas production was the highest for the month since 1973, the earliest year in this data set. Gross withdrawals also increased from September 2024:
• Gross withdrawals: 3,938 Bcf for the month, or 131.3 Bcf/d
• A 6.3% increase compared with September 2024 (123.5 Bcf/d)
• Highest daily rate for any month since 1980, the earliest year in this data set
• Estimated natural gas consumption in September 2025 was 2,427 Bcf, or 80.9 Bcf/d
• A 0.4% increase compared with September 2024 (80.6 Bcf/d)
• Highest daily rate for the month since 2001, the earliest year in this data set
• The year-over-year average daily rate of dry natural gas consumption in September 2025 increased in two of the four consuming sectors and decreased in the other two. Natural gas deliveries by consuming sector in September 2025 were:
• Residential deliveries: 112 Bcf for the month, or 3.7 Bcf/d
• A 1.8% decrease compared with September 2024 (3.8 Bcf/d)
• Lowest daily rate of residential deliveries for the month since 2019
• Commercial deliveries: 156 Bcf for the month, or 5.20 Bcf/d
• A 0.6% increase compared with September 2024 (5.17 Bcf/d)
• Highest daily rate of commercial deliveries for the month since we began using the current methodology in 2001
• Industrial deliveries: 670 Bcf for the month, or 22.33 Bcf/d
• A 0.1% increase compared with September 2024 (22.30 Bcf/d)
• Second-highest daily rate of industrial deliveries for the month since we began using the current methodology in 2001
• Electric power deliveries: 1,221 Bcf for the month, or 40.7 Bcf/d
• A 0.2% decrease compared with September 2024 (40.8 Bcf/d)
• Second-highest daily rate of electric power deliveries, despite this decrease, for the month since we began using the current methodology in 2001
• Net natural gas imports (imports minus exports) were -501 Bcf, or -16.7 Bcf/d, in September 2025. This net import volume was the lowest for the month, and second lowest for any month, since we began tracking net imports in 1973, making the United States a net natural gas exporter. The United States exported 3.2 times more natural gas than it imported in September 2025. The daily rate of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports in September 2025 was 24.5% higher than the daily rate in September 2024 and was the highest for any month since we began tracking LNG exports in 1997. In September 2025, the United States exported 15.1 Bcf/d of LNG to 29 countries. Natural gas imports decreased while exports increased year over year in September 2025:
• Total imports: 226 Bcf for the month, or 7.5 Bcf/d
• An 8.5% decrease compared with September 2024 (8.2 Bcf/d)
• Lowest daily rate of natural gas imports for the month since 2021
• Total exports: 727 Bcf for the month, or 24.2 Bcf/d
• A 13.9% increase compared with September 2024 (21.3 Bcf/d)
• Highest daily rate of natural gas exports for the month since we began tracking them in 1973