Lng Import Export Statistics Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

Trade numbers for liquefied natural gas never come from one table. In the pool Datadory catalogs they assemble from three layers: country-reported flows submitted through multilateral initiatives, terminal-level transparency platforms run by grid operators, and compiled market reports from industry associations. Of the 23 primary Integrated Oil & Gas datasets, exactly one is LNG-titled - GIIGNL LNG Trade Data, quality score 5 - and everything else contributes to the trade picture piecewise.

Five records answer most trade questions, and they divide cleanly by job. Rank the world or screen an importer list with EIA International Energy Statistics (quality 9); time the month with JODI-Gas; harmonise a European panel with Eurostat (quality 9); read market narrative and terminal/fleet context from GIIGNL; and watch tanks fill and empty day by day on GIE ALSI:

A practical stack pairs two of them: EIA for breadth and public-domain reuse, JODI-Gas for the fastest official monthly print. Eurostat earns its place the moment the analysis touches EU policy comparability, because its harmonised balance definitions mean German, Polish and Spanish gas are counted the same way.

Partly, and the split matters before you plan anything around it. The International Group of LNG Importers publishes its annual report PDFs - one multi-chapter document per year, tens of pages each - freely downloadable without registration, covering editions from 2020 to 2026, and it added quarterly market reviews starting in 2026. That public layer carries global trade volumes, import and export country detail, terminal capacity and fleet statistics.

Granularity is where LNG trade work usually breaks. GIIGNL aggregates by country and by terminal/fleet category and publishes no wellhead or cargo-level detail at all, so voyage- or cargo-level questions need another source entirely. JODI observes monthly, country by product by flow, with no sub-national or company breakdown; its files are sized for whole-panel loads rather than lookups, in the same pattern as its oil side, where the primary CSV runs about 283,000 rows per year and secondary products about 637,000.

EIA organizes per country, per product, per activity and per period, so a world ranking is one query - but responses cap at 5,000 rows, meaning a multi-product pull walks the pagination. The exception to all this coarseness is infrastructure telemetry: GIE ALSI reports per terminal, per operator and per country each gas day, tracking tank inventory, send-out, DTMI/DTRS capacities, utilisation and contracted versus available capacity. Individual terminal histories are deep enough to anchor event studies - Zeebrugge's operational series, for instance, is recorded from January 1, 2011.