However, the United States is currently exporting all the gas it can ship out and sending more would require a steep increase in production, something that will take time and could prove challenging given current low prices.
US LNG has already helped make up for a significant part of supply lost when Germany stopped Russian pipeline imports on which it had long relied after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
US LNG accounted for 91 per cent of imports at German regasification terminals in 2024, covering nine per cent of national gas usage in December, industry group BDEW said. In 2023, U.S. LNG made up 84 per cent of imports, which in December 2023 met 6.9 per cent of demand.