美国能源信息署（EIA）的《短期能源展望》详细列出了美国本土48州（L48）阿巴拉契亚、巴肯、鹰滩、海恩斯维尔和二叠纪盆地的天然气市场产量数据，并涵盖了阿拉斯加和美洲湾的产量数据。2025年，亨利枢纽现货价格上涨60%，达到每英热单位352万美元，推动了所有地区的产量增长。其中，阿巴拉契亚、二叠纪盆地和海恩斯维尔地区的产量增长达到42亿立方英尺^/日，其他地区的产量增长则为11亿立方英尺^/日。

2025年，美国东北部阿巴拉契亚地区的天然气产量超过美国其他任何地区，占市场天然气产量的31%，即366亿立方英尺^/日。近年来，由于输送天然气至需求市场的管道运力有限，阿巴拉契亚地区的天然气产量增长有所放缓。2024年6月，联邦能源监管委员会批准了山谷管道（Mountain Valley Pipeline）的运营。随着新增输气能力的投入使用，以及2025年亨利枢纽天然气价格较上年上涨，阿巴拉契亚地区的天然气产量在2025年增长了11亿立方英尺^/日，而2024年的增幅仅为4600亿立方英尺^/日。

到2025年，德克萨斯州和新墨西哥州的二叠纪盆地将占美国天然气市场产量的23%，并贡献美国天然气产量增长的一半左右。2025年，二叠纪盆地天然气市场产量增长11%，即27亿立方英尺^/日，平均达到277亿立方英尺^/日。

在二叠纪盆地，天然气产量的增长主要源于石油生产过程中产生的伴生气。西德克萨斯中质原油（WTI）价格从2024年的每桶77美元跌至2025年的每桶65美元。这一价格持续支撑着二叠纪盆地以石油开采为导向的钻探活动。达拉斯联邦储备银行能源调查中，石油行业高管报告称，二叠纪盆地两大盆地（米德兰盆地和特拉华盆地）2025年的盈亏平衡价格分别为每桶61美元和每桶62美元。此外，二叠纪盆地平均气油比的持续上升也促进了天然气产量的增长。

2025年，横跨路易斯安那州和德克萨斯州的海恩斯维尔地区天然气日均产量为149亿立方英尺^，比2024年的年均产量增长4%。亨利枢纽天然气价格从2024年到2025年的上涨，使得即使油井开发成本相对较高且深度更大，在海恩斯维尔地区钻探天然气仍然具有经济效益。海恩斯维尔地层的深度在10500英尺到13500英尺之间，而阿巴拉契亚地区的油井平均深度为4000英尺到8500英尺。但海恩斯维尔地区毗邻液化天然气出口终端和美国墨西哥湾沿岸的主要工业天然气用户，这吸引了众多运营商前来开发。

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The EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook breaks out US Lower 48 (L48) marketed natural gas production data for the Appalachia, Bakken, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Permian regions and also includes Alaska and Gulf of America production data. In 2025, Henry Hub spot prices rose by 60% to US$3.52 million Btu, which contributed to growth in all regions. The Appalachia, Permian, and Haynesville regions accounted for 4.2 billion ft³/d growth while other regions accounted for the remaining 1.1 billion ft³/d growth.

In 2025, more natural gas was produced in the Appalachia region of the Northeast than in any other US region, accounting for 31%, or 36.6 billion ft³/d, of marketed natural gas production. Production growth in the Appalachia region has been slowing in recent years because of limited pipeline takeaway capacity to transport natural gas to demand markets. On June 2024, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorised the Mountain Valley Pipeline to begin operations. With this new capacity addition and the higher Henry Hub prices in 2025 relative to the previous year, production in the Appalachia grew by 1.1 billion ft³/d in 2025 compared with the increase of just 46 million billion ft³/d in 2024.

The Permian region in Texas and New Mexico accounted for 23% of the marketed natural gas production in the US in 2025 and around half the growth in US production. In 2025, marketed natural gas production in the Permian region rose by 11%, or 2.7 billion ft³/d, to average 27.7 billion ft³/d.

In the Permian region, growth in natural gas production is primarily the result of associated gas produced during oil production. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil prices fell from US$77/bbl (b) in 2024 to US$65/bbl in 2025. This price continued to support oil-directed drilling in the Permian region. Oil industry executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy survey report the two largest basins in the Permian had breakeven prices of US$61/bbl (Midland Basin) and US$62/bbl (Delaware Basin) in 2025. Additionally, the average gas-to-oil ratio, which has been steadily increasing in the Permian, contributed to natural gas growth.

In 2025, production in the Haynesville region, which spans Louisiana and Texas, averaged 14.9 billion ft³/d, 4% more than the 2024 annual average. The Henry Hub price increase from 2024 to 2025 allowed drilling in the Haynesville region to remain economical even with relatively deeper and more expensive well development costs. The Haynesville formation is between 10 500 ft to 13 500 ft deep compared with wells that average 4000 ft to 8500 ft deep in the Appalachia region. But the Haynesville’s proximity to LNG export terminals and major industrial natural gas consumers along the US Gulf Coast draws operators to the region.

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