FRANKFURT, July 17 (Xinhua) — Natural gas production in Germany increased slightly in 2025, marking its first annual rise in more than two decades, according to a report released on Friday.
Germany produced 4.5 billion cubic metres of raw natural gas in 2025, up 2 percent from 2024 and marking the first year-on-year increase since 2003, according to the 2025 annual report on natural gas and oil production published by the Lower Saxony State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG).
The report said natural gas production is concentrated almost entirely in Lower Saxony, which accounts for 98 percent of Germany’s total output. The remaining production comes from Saxony-Anhalt, Bavaria and Thuringia.
The increase was mainly driven by the transboundary N05-A gas field in the North Sea, which was included in Germany’s production statistics for the first time in 2025 and accounted for about 4 percent of domestic output. Although no drilling had taken place in German territory by the end of 2025, around 190 million cubic metres of gas were counted as German production because roughly one-third of the reservoir lies beneath German territory.
In contrast, Germany’s crude oil production continued to decline. According to the LBEG, crude oil output fell 4.2 percent to 1.6 million tonnes. Domestic production of natural gas and crude oil meets about 5 percent of the country’s combined demand for the two fuels.
