OK, green energy activists and leftists in general: When you've lost Reuters, you know you're in trouble. That UK-based news network is now noting that the United States, after the One Big Beautiful Bill's energy provisions took place, smashed through previous records in liquid natural gas (LNG) exports.
Unless the Democrats somehow grab back control of the levers of power in Washington, we can expect more of this.
The U.S. in 2025 became the first country to export more than 100 million metric tons (mmt) of liquefied natural gas in a single year, powered by the startup of production from new plants, preliminary data from LSEG showed.
The world's largest LNG exporter sold 111 mmt of the fuel, almost 20 mmt more than its nearest rival Qatar and nearly 23 mmt more than it did last year, LSEG data showed.
U.S. shipments accounted for roughly a quarter of global LNG exports last year.
As someone once said, that's a big freakin' deal.
Here's the best bit:
Alex Munton, director of global gas and LNG at research firm Rapidan Energy Group, said the 24% year-on-year growth came down to high utilization across onstream terminals and a rapid ramp up at new facilities.
The annual record was supported by a monthly milestone in December when the U.S. exported 11.5 mmt, a record for a single month, the data showed.
In 2025, the U.S. set five monthly production records.
"It is remarkable that in nine years the U.S. has gone from zero LNG exports to over 100 mmt, and the success validates the U.S. approach of selling free on board and pulling gas off the grid and the reliability of U.S. supplies," Jason Feer, head of business intelligence at shipping firm Poten and Partners, said on Friday.
The key thing: "...rapid ramp up at new facilities."
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The Trump administration wasted no time in taking credit for the record-breaking year:
"The U.S. in 2025 became the first country to export more than 100 million metric tons (mmt) of liquefied natural gas in a single year, powered by the startup of production from new plants" https://t.co/62wi6cg7rp
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 5, 2026
A lot of this is due to the regulatory streamlining, new permits/leases, and other items ushered in by the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) last year. That act restarted leasing for oil and gas extraction on federal lands, as well as reducing taxation and other costs on the industry. The OBBB reversed the four years of the Biden administration's crackdown on leasing and development, and took the U.S. energy sector from "Thou shalt not develop new energy resources, anywhere, ever, except wind and solar" to "drill, baby, drill."
Now we are seeing the results of that, with amazing celerity.
Oil and natural gas, we should note, are global, fungible commodities. Increases in production will result in reduction in the cost of the commodity, everywhere where any semblance of a free market is in place. Europe imports a significant amount of LNG from the United States, and when they are able to buy it from us, that's gas they aren't buying from Russia, which is manifestly a good thing. At present, Europe is now buying roughly 2/3 of their imported LNG from the United States. That's about 95 billion cubic meters (bcm) of LNG bought from the USA, not Vladimir Putin.
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