World LNG Imports by Origin, 2002 (Billion Cubic Feet)

            ORIGIN              
  United States Trinidad and Tobago Algeria Libya Nigeria Qatar United Arab Emirates Oman Australia Brunei Indonesia Malaysia Total Imports
                           
                           
IMPORTERS                          
North America 0.40 151.11 26.58   8.12 35.08   3.01   2.40   2.42 229.13
United States   151.11 26.58   8.12 35.08   3.01   2.40   2.42 228.73
Mexico1 0.40                       0.40
Central/South America   22.18       1.77             23.94
Puerto Rico   22.18       1.77             23.94
                           
Western Europe   15.89 908.83 21.22 385.50 76.17 17.02 56.08 2.47 2.83     1486.02
Belgium     117.49     3.07 3.53           124.10
France     364.80   128.19     18.40         511.40
Greece     18.01                   18.01
Italy     72.47   145.89               218.35
Portugal         14.62               14.62
Spain   15.89 204.65 21.22 55.90 73.10 13.49 37.68 2.47 2.83     427.24
Turkey     131.41   40.89               172.30
                           
Asia/Oceania 63.44         563.06 236.96 221.04 364.63 335.95 1107.62 738.19 3630.89
Japan2 63.44         325.57 226.02 33.73 356.54 300.46 728.83 532.09 2566.67
South Korea3           237.49 10.95 187.31 8.09 35.49 231.53 106.12 816.98
Taiwan                     147.26 99.98 247.24
                           
Apparent Exports 63.84 189.18 935.42 21.22 393.62 676.08 253.99 280.13 367.10 341.18 1107.62 740.61 5369.99

1 Imports to Mexico from the United States are delivered by truck.

2 Japan re-exported approximately 5.30 billion cubic feet of LNG received from Indonesia to South Korea.

3 South Korea re-exported approximately 1.77 billion cubic feet of LNG received from Indonesia to Japan.

Sources: Imports to the United States and Imports to Japan and Mexico from the United States: Energy Information Administration, Natural Gas Monthly (May 2003). Imports to Belgium from United Arab Emirates, Imports to Spain from Australia and Brunei, and Imports to Puerto Rico from Qatar: Cedigaz Centre International d'Information sur le Gaz Naturel et tous Hydrocarbures Gazeux (Cedigaz), Natural Gas In the World, Major Trends for the Gas Industry 2002. All other countries: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Energy Agency, Natural Gas Information 2003 (with 2002 data).

Notes: o For Cedigaz data, flows are on a contractual basis and may not correspond to actual physical gas flows in all cases. o Totals may not equal sum of components due to independent rounding.


Last Updated on 9/15/2003
By Karen Griffin