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NATURAL GAS
INFORMATION
2015
Secure Sustainable Together
2015
NATURAL GAS
INFORMATION
Natural Gas Information is a detailed reference
work on gas supply and demand covering not
only OECD countries but also the rest of the world.
This publication contains essential information on
LNG and pipeline trade, gas reserves, storage
capacity and prices.
The main part of the book, however, concentrates
on OECD countries, showing a detailed supply
and demand balance for each country and for
the three OECD regions: Americas, Asia-Oceania
and Europe, as well as a breakdown of gas
consumption by end user. Import and export data
are reported by source and destination.
Natural Gas Information is one of a series of
annual IEA statistical publication on major energy
sources; other reports are Coal Information,
Electricity Information, Oil Information and
Renewables Information.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXPLANATORY NOTES
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. vii
2. Definitions.................................................................................................................................................................... ix
3. Sources and notes ....................................................................................................................................................... xiii
4. Geographical coverage ................................................................................................................................................ xv
5. Recent data revisions ................................................................................................................................................ xvii
PART I: KEY NATURAL GAS TRENDS ......................................................................................................... I.1
PART II: WORLD OVERVIEW
Tables 1 and 2: World natural gas production (in Mcm and in TJ) ................................................................................. II.2
Tables 3 and 4: World natural gas consumption (in Mcm and in TJ) .............................................................................. II.6
Tables 5 and 6: World natural gas consumption for power generation (in Mcm and in TJ) .......................................... II.10
Tables 7 and 8: World imports of natural gas (in Mcm and in TJ) ................................................................................ II.14
Tables 9 and 10: World exports of natural gas (in Mcm and in TJ) .............................................................................. II.18
Tables 11-18: World natural gas imports by origin (in Mcm) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 ................................................ II.20
Tables 19-26: World natural gas pipeline imports by origin (in Mcm) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 ................................... II.36
Table 27: World LNG imports by origin (in Mcm) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 ............................................ II.52
Table 28: World LNG terminals .................................................................................................................................... II.56
Table 29: World gas storage capacity ............................................................................................................................ II.59
Table 30: World reserves of natural gas ........................................................................................................................ II.64
PART III: OECD OVERVIEW
Table 1: Share of OECD energy production by fuel ...................................................................................................... III.2
Table 2: Share of OECD energy consumption by fuel .................................................................................................. III.4
Tables 3 and 4: Natural gas import prices into Europe by pipeline (in US dollars/MBtu and in national currency/MBtu) ... III.6
Tables 5 and 6: LNG import prices into Europe (in US dollars/MBtu and in national currency) ............................... III.10
Table 7: LNG import prices into Japan and Korea (in US dollars/MBtu) ................................................................... III.14
Table 8: LNG and natural gas import prices into the United States (in US dollars/MBtu) ......................................... III.16
Table 9: LNG import prices into Japan and Korea (in national currency/MBtu) ........................................................ III.18
Table 10: Natural gas prices for industry in national currency .................................................................................... III.20
Table 11: Natural gas prices for households in national currency ............................................................................... III.21
Table 12: Natural gas prices for electricity generation in national currency ............................................................... III.22
Table 13: Natural gas prices for industry in US dollars ............................................................................................... III.23
Table 14: Natural gas prices for households in US dollars .......................................................................................... III.24
Table 15: Natural gas prices for electricity generation in US dollars .......................................................................... III.25
Table 16: Price comparison for competing fuels for industry (in US dollars/toe) ....................................................... III.26
Table 17: Price comparison for competing fuels for households (in US dollars/toe) .................................................. III.27
Table 18: Price comparison for competing fuels for electricity generation (in US dollars/toe) .................................. III.28
PART IV: OECD DETAILED NATURAL GAS DATA
OECD Total ................................................................................................................................................................... IV.3
OECD Americas .......................................................................................................................................................... IV.13
OECD Asia Oceania .................................................................................................................................................... IV.23
OECD Europe .............................................................................................................................................................. IV.33
IEA Total ..................................................................................................................................................................... IV.43
IEA Americas .............................................................................................................................................................. IV.53
IEA Asia Oceania ........................................................................................................................................................ IV.63
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Australia ...................................................................................................................................................................... IV.83
Austria ........................................................................................................................................................................ IV.93
Belgium ..................................................................................................................................................................... IV.103
Canada ....................................................................................................................................................................... IV.113
Chile .......................................................................................................................................................................... IV.123
Czech Republic .......................................................................................................................................................... IV.133
Denmark .................................................................................................................................................................... IV.143
Estonia ....................................................................................................................................................................... IV.153
Finland ....................................................................................................................................................................... IV.163
France ........................................................................................................................................................................ IV.173
Germany .................................................................................................................................................................... IV.183
Greece ........................................................................................................................................................................ IV.193
Hungary ..................................................................................................................................................................... IV.203
Ireland ........................................................................................................................................................................ IV.213
Israel .......................................................................................................................................................................... IV.223
Italy ............................................................................................................................................................................ IV.231
Japan .......................................................................................................................................................................... IV.241
Korea ......................................................................................................................................................................... IV.251
Luxembourg............................................................................................................................................................... IV.261
Mexico ....................................................................................................................................................................... IV.271
Netherlands ................................................................................................................................................................ IV.281
New Zealand .............................................................................................................................................................. IV.291
Norway ...................................................................................................................................................................... IV.301
Poland ........................................................................................................................................................................ IV.311
Portugal ...................................................................................................................................................................... IV.321
Slovak Republic ......................................................................................................................................................... IV.331
Slovenia ..................................................................................................................................................................... IV.341
Spain .......................................................................................................................................................................... IV.351
Sweden ...................................................................................................................................................................... IV.361
Switzerland ................................................................................................................................................................ IV.371
Turkey ........................................................................................................................................................................ IV.381
United Kingdom ........................................................................................................................................................ IV.391
United States .............................................................................................................................................................. IV.401
Country notes ........................................................................................................................................................... IV.411
Abbreviations and conversion factors .................................................................................................................... IV.421
PART V: HISTORICAL TIME SERIES FOR OECD COUNTRIES
Table 1: Natural gas production ...................................................................................................................................... V.2
Table 2: Natural gas imports ........................................................................................................................................... V.4
Table 3: Natural gas exports ........................................................................................................................................... V.6
Table 4: Natural gas consumption .................................................................................................................................. V.8
Table 5: Natural gas consumption in transformation .................................................................................................... V.10
Table 6: Natural gas consumption in energy industry own use .................................................................................... V.12
Table 7: Natural gas final consumption ........................................................................................................................ V.14
Table 8: Natural gas consumption in transport ............................................................................................................. V.16
Table 9: Natural gas consumption in industry .............................................................................................................. V.18
Table 10: Natural gas consumption in the other sectors (e.g. commerce and public services, residential, agriculture) ........ V.20
Tables 11 and 12: OECD GDP and industrial production index ................................................................................. V.22
Tables 13 and 14: OECD natural gas supply per unit of GDP and per capita .............................................................. V.24
Table 15: Key energy and CO emissions from fuel combustion data for OECD countries in 2013 ........................... V.26
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PART VI: MAPS OF PIPELINE INFRASTRUCTURE – ORGANISATION AND
REGULATION OF GAS TRANSPORTATION .......................................................................... VI.1
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1. INTRODUCTION
Natural Gas Information 2015 is the latest edition of a Part VI shows the gas pipeline network for important
publication on natural gas that has been produced an- gas regions and for each OECD country, and provides
nually since 1996. Previously, statistical information some information on the organisation and regulation
on natural gas was included in the publication Oil and of natural gas transportation in the country.
Gas Information; however given the increasing prom-
The OECD has 34 Member countries. Energy data for
inence of natural gas in the global economy, the need
all individual Member countries are presented in
was seen for a publication dedicated solely to this en-
Parts III, IV and V. OECD totals and regional aggre-
ergy source.
gates are also provided. In some instances, particular-
The report is intended to provide both energy policy ly where energy forecasts are concerned, only IEA
makers and those employed in all sectors of the gas aggregates are used. The IEA has 29 Member coun-
industry with information on current natural gas tries: all the Member countries of the OECD except
trends and prospects. Chile, Iceland, Israel, Mexico and Slovenia.
Natural Gas Information 2015 brings together in one Natural gas data reported for 2014 (shown as 2014p)
volume the basic statistics compiled by the IEA on are provisional data based on submissions received in
natural gas supply and demand. It also includes in- early 2015 and on monthly submissions from OECD
formation on prices, storage capacity, LNG and pipe- Member countries. The submissions received in early
line trade, LNG terminals as well as maps on the dis- 2015 consisted of simplified questionnaires covering
tribution network in OECD countries1,2. only supply data. In some instances it has been neces-
sary for the IEA to estimate some data. Explanations
Part I of this publication provides a summary of the
of the estimates are provided in the country notes. All
key trends in supply and demand that emerged in
data for 2014 for non-Member countries have been
2013 and 2014.
estimated by the IEA secretariat.
Part II of this publication provides summary tables of
world natural gas developments, with time series back Annual natural gas data on OECD countries are col-
to early 1970s. lected from Member countries by the team in the
Energy Data Centre (EDC) of the IEA secretariat,
Parts III and IV provide a more detailed and compre-
headed by Duncan Millard and previously by Jean-
hensive picture of gas supply and demand for the
Yves Garnier. The IEA would like to thank and
OECD by region and individual countries.
acknowledge the dedication and professionalism of
Part V includes historical time series of production the statisticians working on energy data in the coun-
and consumption by sector and selected indicators. tries. The Natural Gas Information publication and its
statistics were prepared by Federico de Luca and Gus-
tav Boëthius. Also in the IEA secretariat, thanks are
due to the non-OECD Member countries section of
1. This document is without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty
over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and the Energy Data Centre headed by Pierre Boileau and
boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area.
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