An assessment of monthly data shows that in 2017 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) natural gas production grew by 2.4% compared to 2016. This growth was driven by increases in production across all OECD regions, particularly in Asia Oceania (+17.7%), whilst the Americas and Europe saw moderate growth, with increases of 1.1% and 0.4% respectively.
The Americas continued to account for nearly three quarters of the total OECD natural gas production in 2017. In the Americas, production in Canada and the U.S. drove the overall trend upwards (+5.7% and +0.7% respectively), despite lower production levels in Mexico (-12.2%) in 2017.