{"id":2465800,"date":"2025-07-23T16:18:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisianas-natural-gas-production-rebounds-after-two-year-decline-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:20:10","slug":"louisianas-natural-gas-production-rebounds-after-two-year-decline-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisianas-natural-gas-production-rebounds-after-two-year-decline-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana\u2019s natural gas production rebounds after two-year decline &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flouisianas-natural-gas-production-rebounds-after-two-year-decline-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2465800&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Louisiana&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/millions-without-power-in-texas-energy-prices-climb\/\" title=\"Millions Without Power In Texas; ... ... Climb\">natural gas production<\/a> is recovering after a two-year decline, driven by rising prices, increased drilling activity, and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >federal policies supporting fossil fuel growth<\/a>. After peaking in May 2023, production fell due to a steep drop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texans-hit-with-thousands-of-dollars-in-energy-costs-wont-get-bills-reduced\/\" title=\"Texans Hit With Thousands Of Dollars In ... Costs Won\u2019t Get Bills Reduced\">natural gas prices<\/a>, reaching a low in early 2025. However, with prices rebounding above $4 per million British Thermal Units in early 2025 and renewed drilling in key areas like the Haynesville Shale, output has started to increase again. Federal actions,including lifting the pause on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">liquefied natural gas<\/a> (LNG) export approvals and streamlining regulatory reviews,along with new congressional legislation promoting more lease sales and reducing industry fees,have further helped stimulate production growth in Louisiana&#8217;s natural gas sector.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Louisiana&rsquo;s natural gas production rebounds after two-year decline<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2180453\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>(The Center Square) &minus; After two years of decline, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Louisiana&rsquo;s<\/a> natural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">gas<\/a> production is on the rise again, buoyed by recovering prices, renewed drilling activity and federal policy shifts favoring expanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fossil-fuels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">fossil fuel<\/a> development.<\/p>\n<p>The state&rsquo;s production had previously peaked at 389,000 MMcf in May 2023 before steadily falling, primarily due to collapsing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/natural-gas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">natural gas<\/a> prices.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3479872\/watch-live-ai-action-plan-trump-tech-allies\/\">WATCH LIVE: Trump outlines &#8216;AI Action Plan&#8217; created by tech allies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3480126\/trump-administration-kristi-noem-eric-adams-rhetoric-shift\/\">Trump administration shifts rhetoric on Eric Adams as his reelection hopes dwindle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3480156\/bondi-told-trump-name-in-epstein-files\/\">Bondi told Trump in May that his name was in Epstein files: Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/beta\/states\/states\/la\/data\/dashboard\/natural-gas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to the latest figures<\/a>, Louisiana produced 336,500 million cubic feet of natural gas in March 2025, up from a low of 264,000 MMcf in February.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just a story of prices,&rdquo; said Dr. Greg Upton, associate professor at LSU&rsquo;s Center for Energy Studies. &ldquo;Whenever you have prices fluctuate&hellip;companies are going to respond to that by by drilling more or less wells.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That lag was felt sharply across the Haynesville Shale, the core of Louisiana&rsquo;s gas production. Between December 2022 and December 2024, rig counts in the region dropped significantly, with total production falling about 7%, according to Energy Information Administration data.<\/p>\n<p>The downturn coincided with a dramatic drop in natural gas prices, which fell to a record low of $1.49 per&nbsp;million British Thermal Units in March 2024. Prices began rebounding in early 2025, with Henry Hub futures hitting $4.08\/MMBtu on January 15 &mdash; the first time in two years they broke the $4 threshold, according to the American Gas Association.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Prices surged after Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, which triggered massive demand for U.S. liquefied natural gas,&rdquo; Upton explained. Upton said that incentivized drilling and once all that new production came online, prices collapsed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s first actions after returning to office in January was to direct the U.S. Department of Energy to lift the pause on liquefied natural gas export approvals. The Department&rsquo;s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management resumed consideration of pending applications to export LNG to countries without a free trade agreement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3476785\/university-lakes-restoration-project-to-finish-by-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">UNIVERSITY LAKES RESTORATION PROJECT FULLY FUNDED, DREDGING TO FINISH BY 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acting Energy Secretary Ingrid Kolb also ordered the LNG export review process to run in parallel with the National Environmental Policy Act review, aiming to reduce regulatory delays.<\/p>\n<p>In Congress, the recently passed &ldquo;One Big Beautiful Bill Act&rdquo; further bolstered the oil and gas sector by mandating quarterly onshore lease sales and thirty new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-manchin-criticizes-biden-administration-say-you-will-support-oil-and-gas-development-and-production\/\" title=\"WATCH: Manchin Criticizes Biden Administration: Say \u2018You Will Support Oil And Gas Development And ...\u2019\">offshore lease sales<\/a> in the Gulf of Mexico through 2040, with at least 80 million acres offered per sale. The law also reduced royalties and eliminated methane fees, easing cost burdens on producers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2180453\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2180453\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana&#8217;s natural gas output rises after two-year drop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2465801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/louisiana-natural-gas-pipeline.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32598,6100,41067,24473],"class_list":["post-2465800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-energy-production","tag-louisiana","tag-natural-gas","tag-rebound"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/louisiana-natural-gas-pipeline.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465804,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465800\/revisions\/2465804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}