Natural Gas WINTER 22-23 WORRIES CONTINUE TO PRESSURE THE MARKET UPWARDS NO RELIEF IN SIGHT. Worries about the lack of injections and possible storage shortages for next winter kept the Natural Gas price hovering near $8.00 for the week. Increased LNG exports will make up the bulk of increased demand in 2022, keeping pricing high…
EIA PROJECTS ABOVE $8.00 PER MMBTU FOR THE 2ND HALF OF 2022 PRICES WILL HURT UNTIL SPRING 2023. The EIA is projecting that average pricing will be $7.83 in 2Q 2022 and will average $8.59 in the second half of 2022 Pricing in 2023 will average $4.74 once production begins to catch up to demand.…
Natural Gas: STORAGE WORRIES FOR NEXT WINTER CONTINUE TO INFLATE MARKET SOME RELIEF MAY BE ON THE WAY. Worries about Natural Gas Storage for Winter ‘22-’23 sent the market peaking above $9.00 last week, ever closer to a record high of $15.78 in December 2005 and the highest since 2008. The outlook does not look…
Weather: AVERAGE TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT AS THE AVERAGE TEMP RISES. We can look forward to milder weather, with the last of the sub-freezing cold fronts hopefully past. Unfortunately, the late start to warmer temperatures has kept heating demand high, adding to our supply woes that are the worst since at least 2018. WHAT GOES UP MUST…
Energy News: E.U. Recommends Russian Ban The E.U. recommends a complete oil, gas, and coal ban on Russian energy. This recommendation carries no official weight, and, so far, only Russian coal has been sanctioned. But this recommendation is another step closer to Europe banning all Russian energy over the Ukraine invasion. The U.S. will have…
HIGH POPULATION CITIES SHOULD SEE LOWER DEMAND Milder weather is projected for mid-April, but we may still see a withdrawal this week of 25-35 Bcf. This late cold snap is hurting our chances to rebuild gas storage for the upcoming winter, which may make for an even worse market than we had this past winter.…
NATURAL GAS SNAPSHOT: MARKET IN A WATCH, WAIT AND SEE MODE Milder forecasts and higher European pandemic numbers, offset by higher-than-expected withdrawal, kept the market mostly waiting and seeing. We are close to a typical shoulder month in April. A shoulder month is a month typically low demand. Warm enough to turn off the heaters,…
Happy Pi Day! MILDER WEATHER SHOULD LEAD TO LOWER DEMAND ACROSS THE COUNTRY Milder weather is on the way soon. This should lower demand and may even lower Natural Gas prices. Later this week, a warmer weather pattern will arrive as high-pressure rules vast stretches of the country. Slow-moving mild and wet systems will linger…