Cheniere Energy (NYSE: LNG), the biggest U.S. LNG exporter, booked a 64% surge in its net income for 2025 from a year earlier, as it produced and exported a record amount of the fuel last year.
Cheniere on Thursday reported a net income of $5.33 billion for 2025, up by 64% from 2024, on revenues increased by 27% to $19.976 billion.
Consolidated adjusted core earnings, or EBITDA, rose by 13% to $6.943 billion as both the number of exported cargoes and LNG volumes increased by 4%.
Cheniere produced record amount of LNG in 2025, with 670 cargoes exported, the company said.
Just days ago, Cheniere celebrated the 10th anniversary of its first cargo of LNG, which was exported on February 24, 2016.
Since the first U.S. LNG cargo was exported, Cheniere has now exported more than 4,610 cargoes.
Concurrently with the 2025 earnings, Cheniere introduced financial guidance ranges for 2026 of $6.75 – $7.25 billion of consolidated adjusted EBITDA and $4.35 – $4.85 billion of distributable cash flow.
The guidance reflects “our previously announced LNG production forecast and includes our expectation for the completion of the remaining three trains at Corpus Christi Stage 3 this year,” said Jack Fusco, Cheniere’s president and CEO.
The top U.S. LNG exporter and other project developers of export facilities in the United States, the world’s largest LNG exporter, have benefited from strong international LNG demand and a substantial reversal of domestic policies, which favor American oil and gas projects and exports under President Donald Trump.
As the European Union moves to ditch Russian gas – both pipeline and LNG – by 2027, Europe is increasingly relying on LNG from the United States.
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Asia received the most volumes of U.S. LNG exports, averaging 46% from 2017 through 2021, according to EIA data. Since 2022, exports to Europe have surged. Back in 2022, Europe received 69% of all LNG exports from the United States, up from 34% in 2021. From January through November 2025, Europe received 68% of U.S.-origin volumes.
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
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