France Energy Balance 2025: What It Says About LNG
- Publisher
- Service des données et études statistiques, Ministère de la Transition écologique
- Document
- Datalab Essentiel
- Edition
- Provisional data (2026)
- Document language
- French
The French statistical service for energy, SDES, publishes an annual energy balance. The 2025 edition, released in April 2026 with provisional data, records a year in which French primary energy production rose by 2.0 percent and energy independence reached a record 62.7 percent.
For anyone working with liquefied natural gas, the interesting part is not the headline but the composition of gas imports, which has changed sharply since 2021.
What the document covers
- Gas imports rose 8.0 percent between 2024 and 2025, reaching 518 TWh on a gross calorific value basis.
- Imports of liquefied natural gas rose 21.0 percent over the same period.
- LNG accounted for 64 percent of French gas imports in 2025, against 35 percent in 2021.
- Gas came principally from Norway at 36 percent, then the United States at 31 percent and Russia at 17 percent, the last two almost entirely as LNG.
- Part of the LNG imported into France is re-exported as gaseous natural gas to other European countries.
- Total final energy consumption fell by 0.9 percent compared with 2024.
What it means for equipment
A shift from pipeline gas to LNG is a shift towards equipment. Regasification capacity, storage at satellite plants and the road transport that links terminals to off grid industrial users all scale with the share of gas that arrives in liquid form.
For equipment planning, the direction matters more than any single year. If your project depends on LNG supply in Western Europe, the supply route is becoming more liquid and more seaborne, and the storage and vaporisation side of the chain follows it.