BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 25. U.S. natural gas production maintained its growth momentum in September 2025, rising 5.7% year-on-year to reach 91.2 billion cubic meters (bcm), the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) says, Trend reports.
According to the report, the increase was driven by favorable market conditions, higher Henry Hub prices, growing domestic demand, and expanding LNG exports.
The Haynesville region led growth among major basins, with a 9.2% year-on-year increase, followed by the Appalachian shale with a 5.7% rise. Shale dry gas continued to dominate domestic output, accounting for 81% of total production, while conventional and associated gas contributed the remaining 19%. Associated gas alone represented nearly 24% of total output.
Regionally, the Appalachian basin contributed 31.3% of total production, the Permian 23.5%, and Haynesville 13.1%.
For the first nine months of 2025, cumulative U.S. gas production rose 3.7% year-on-year to 832 bcm, a record high, 29 bcm above the same period in 2024.
As of September, the U.S. had 118 gas drilling rigs in operation, slightly down from August, with the Permian basin accounting for nearly half of the fleet. Haynesville saw a 13-rig year-on-year increase. Meanwhile, the number of drilled but uncompleted (DUC) wells fell to 5,192, a decrease of 42 wells month-on-month and 532 fewer than in September 2024, reflecting strong gas prices encouraging producers to bring more wells into production.
