According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), US net gas imports reached a record low level in 2015, to 2.6 bcf/d (73.4 mcm/d), their lowest level since 1986.
Net gas imports started to decline in 2007, when net gas imports exceeded 10 bcf/d (282 mcm/d), and have been progressively offset by a rising domestic gas production (mostly based on shale gas).
The bulk of gas imports (around 7.5 bcf/d or 212 mcm/d) comes from Canada by pipeline with only a low share imported as LNG, mainly from Trinidad and Tobago. Gas exports soared in recent years, thanks to a higher gas production and to the development of interconnection capacities (+3.4 bcf/d or +96 mcm/d to Mexico and + 0.2 bcf/d or +5.6 mcm/d to Canada): gas exports to Mexico grew from 1.3 bcf/d in 2011 to 2.9 bcf/d in 2015 (from 37 mcm/d to 82 mcm/d). Net gas imports from Canada have remained relatively stable since 2011, at around 2 bcf/d (56 mcm/d).
The EIA expects that the United States will become a net exporter of gas by mid-2017, thanks to its new LNG export infrastructures.