EIA: US natural gas consumption to continue falling through 2022

EIA: US natural gas consumption to continue falling through 2022

Friday, April 23, 2021 by Sara Welch

Although natural gas consumption in some sectors is expected to grow this year, overall natural gas consumption is forecasted to drop in 2021 and 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s April Short-Term Energy Outlook.

Natural gas consumption is expected to decrease .3 Bcf/d in 2021 and .9 Bcf/d in 2022.

Last year natural gas consumption decreased about 1.9 Bcf/d. However, 2020 still marked the second-highest annual natural gas consumption behind the all-time high set in 2019.

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