The consultancy estimates that Australian LNG export revenue reached A$5.11 billion ($3.32 billion) last month.
EnergyQuest said this was up on June’s A$4.84 billion and marginally lower, by 1.5 percent, year-on-year from July 2024 ($5.19 billion).
Western Australia projects earned A$3.06 billion in export revenue, Queensland projects earned A$1.38 billion, and Northern Territory projects earned A$0.67 billion.
Maintenance
Over the past four months, WA shipments have been characterized by scheduled maintenance undertaken on Chevron’s Wheatstone LNG project in late April 2025 (which reduced production and shipping from the project), the Woodside-led North West Shelf (NWS) project during May (with up to one train at the project offline throughout the month) and into June, and Chevron’s Gorgon during June and into July (with the equivalent of one train offline), the consultancy said
Consequently, production and shipping volumes have been impacted over the last four months.
There is also further maintenance planned at NWS during late August and into September with the equivalent of one LNG train being planned to be offline during this period, EnergyQuest said.
As the cooler months approach, the three Queensland projects take the opportunity to undertake planned annual maintenance with the Shell-led QCLNG project having the equivalent of up to one train offline for approximately two weeks during May (and into June).
In June, the Santos GLNG project undertook planned maintenance with up to one train being offline for approximately three weeks, which carried over into the first week of July, the consultancy said.
Further, APLNG undertook scheduled maintenance scheduled during July with up to the equivalent of one train being offline for up to approximately two weeks during the month, it said.
Shipments
Despite these planned maintenance schedules, the projects shipped 28 cargoes for a combined total of 1.79 Mt during July down just one cargo compared to shipping 29 cargoes for 1.91 Mt during June.
The July cargo count was the same as May when 28 cargoes for 1.82 Mt were shipped but shipments during these months were down (due to planned maintenance outages) on the higher numbers shipped in the early part of the year, such as in April when 31 cargoes for 2.01 Mt were shipped, the consultancy said.
During July 2025, the NT (Ichthys only) shipped 12 cargoes for 0.87 Mt which was very consistent with the project shipping 12 cargoes for 0.89 Mt in June and shipping 12 cargoes for 0.88 Mt in May, compared to shipping 11 cargoes for 0.82 Mt during April, it said.
Based on shipping data, EnergyQuest estimates that Australia exported 6.63 Mt of LNG in July 2025, totaling 96 cargoes.
This was an increase compared to June 2025, when Australia exported 6.20 Mt and 89 cargoes.
When annualized, July’s exports represent 78.1 Mtpa, equivalent to 90.8 percent of total Australian nameplate capacity of 86 Mtpa, EnergyQuest said.
