US continues gas infrastructure buildout

The US has used booming shale production to massively expand its LNG infrastructure, but Canadian developments have not fare so well while in South America consumption outstrips production

For nearly 20 years, the US has benefited greatly from the domestic shale gas boom. Thanks to the use of horizontal drilling and fracking, US gas production has significantly increased, rising by more than 300bcm/yr to more than 1,030bcm/yr over the last decade (2014–24), according to the Energy Institute. US companies have used the additional volumes to significantly develop the country’s gas, LNG export and petrochemicals infrastructure. For example, not only has the US added tens of billions of cubic feet of gas processing capacity over the last decade, it has also become the world’s largest LNG exporter. At the time of publication, the Global Energy Infrastructure (GEI) database was trac