Natural gas consumption statistics

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This article comprises monthly cumulated data on natural gas in the European Union (EU) for the years 2010 and 2011, as well as evolution trends. It covers all aspects of the supply side - primary production, imports and exports, stock changes, gross inland consumption - as well as natural gas energy dependency data by Member State and for the European aggregates EU-27 and euro area.

Figure 1: Gross inland consumption in EU-27
in million tonnes of oil equivalent (Gross Calorific Value)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_103m), (nrg_124m), (nrg_134m)

Contents

Main statistical findings

Figure 2: EU-27 imports of natural gas - percentage of extra-EU imports by country of origin
Source: Eurostat (nrg_124m)
Table 1: Provisional natural gas balance sheet, January-December 2011
in million toe (GCV)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_103m), (nrg_124m), (nrg_134m)
Table 2: Provisional natural gas balance sheet, January-December 2011
in million toe (GCV)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_103m), (nrg_124m), (nrg_134m)
Figure 3: Gross inland consumption
in million toe (GCV)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_103m), (nrg_124m), (nrg_134m)
Figure 4: Primary production
in million toe (GCV)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_103m)
Figure 5: Total imports and exports
in million toe (GCV)
Source: Eurostat (nrg_124m), (nrg_134m)

Consumption trends

In 2011, gross inland consumption of natural gas in EU-27 fell by 10.5 % in comparison with 2010 to reach 440.0 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe). EA-17 consumption, on the other hand, fell by 9.8 %, to 305.3 million toe. The biggest falls in consumption compared with 2010 were in Sweden (-22.2 %), Belgium (-18.3 %), Denmark (-17.7 %), Slovenia (-16.9 %), United Kingdom (-16.8 %) and Germany (-16.2 %). Increases in consumption in comparison with 2010 were recorded in Greece (+24.3 %), Slovakia (+11.7 %), Lithuania (+9.0 %) and Romania (+3.3 %).

Supply structure

EU-27 natural gas production fell by 9.8 % in comparison with 2010 to total 153.7 million toe. For EA-17, the decrease was 4.3 % and production amounted to 84.9 million toe. Of the main EU producers, the United Kingdom registered a drop in production of 20.7 %, with decreases of 13.5 % in Denmark, 5.4 % in Germany, 4.6 % in the Netherlands and 1.5 % in Hungary. In contrast, there was an increase of 3.3 % in natural gas production in Poland.

Total EU-27 imports of natural gas fell by 0.9 % to total 391.2 million toe. In EA-17, these imports decreased by 3.5 % to total 302.8 million toe. Russian Federation is the country of origin for 33.0 % of natural gas imports (Intra-EU trade excluded), Norway supplies 26.6 %, Algeria 12.9 %, Qatar 11.0 % and Nigeria 4.3 %.

Natural gas dependency decreased by 3.2 % in EU-27 to reach 60.3 %. For EA-17, there was a 2.3 % increase, bringing dependency to 74.6 %.

Data sources and availability

All data used in this article correspond to cumulative monthly figures and may differ from the annual data. Exceptionally, annual values for EU-27 for the period 1995-2004 have been used in Figure 1.

The reporting is based on Energy statistics Regulation 1099/2008/EC.

Comments

In Table 1 and Table 2, negative dependency rate indicates a net exporter country. Positive values over 100 % indicate stocks build-up during the reference period.

Further Eurostat information

Publications

Main tables

Energy Statistics - quantities (t_nrg_quant)
Primary production of natural gas (ten00079)
Gross inland energy consumption, by fuel (tsdcc320)
Final energy consumption of natural gas (ten00098)
Energy dependence (tsdcc310)

Database

Energy Statistics - quantities (nrg_quant)
Energy Statistics - supply, transformation, consumption (nrg_10)
Supply - gas - monthly data (nrg_103m)
Energy statistics - imports (by country of origin) (nrg_12)
Imports (by country of origin) - gas - monthly data (nrg_124m)
Energy statistics - exports (by country of destination) (nrg_13)
Exports (by country of destination) - gas - monthly data (nrg_134m)

Dedicated section

Methodology / Metadata

Source data for tables, figures and maps on this page (MS Excel)

Other information

  • Regulation 1099/2008 of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics
  • Regulation 844/2010 of 20 September 2010 on energy statistics, as regards the establishment of a set of annual nuclear statistics and the adaptation of the methodological references according to NACE Rev. 2

See also

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