Here we go, to the bad old days, once again. Yesterday, the “front month” or “prompt month” for the NYMEX Henry Hub futures contract closed below $2/MMBtu — closing at $1.97. It is the lowest close for the NYMEX front month contract since September 2020, when it closed at $1.83. Yeah, the bad old days…
Read More...U.S. natural gas and power prices hit multi-year highs in mid-January with the prospect of frigid temps and snow storms in various portions of the country (see NatGas Prices Make Huge Jump on Deep Freeze – Some M-U Prices 4X). The NYMEX Henry Hub futures price hit $3.31/MMBtu just three weeks ago. A week later,…
Read More...Once a month, the analysts at the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) issue the agency’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), their best guess about where energy prices and production will go in the next 12 months or so. We sometimes poke good-natured fun at the EIA because their predictions go up in one month, and in…
Read More...Just one week ago, the price of natural gas, both the futures price and spot (physical) price, jumped — in some cases by four times in the space of just a couple of days (see NatGas Prices Make Huge Jump on Deep Freeze – Some M-U Prices 4X). And just as quickly as the price…
Read More...BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, recently provided a price forecast for the Henry Hub gas price all the way out to 2028. BMI’s forecast is much rosier than others we’ve read. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently predicted the Henry Hub price will average under $3/MMBtu in both 2024 and 2025. BMI, on the…
Read More...Well, that didn’t take long. Yesterday we told you about the huge jump in the price of natural gas, both the futures price and the spot (physically traded) price, due to the brutal cold snap much of the country is currently experiencing (see NatGas Prices Make Huge Jump on Deep Freeze – Some M-U Prices…
Read More...U.S. natural gas and power prices hit multi-year highs on Friday with the prospect of frigid temps and snow storms in various portions of the country. The extreme cold was expected to bring record gas demand and cut supplies by freezing wells. The spot price of natural gas at various trading hubs from the West…
Read More...The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) published a post yesterday on the agency’s newly revamped Today in Energy website to announce it expects the Henry Hub natural gas spot price to average under $3.00/MMBtu in 2024 and 2025. What joyous news (not). The post explains the reasoning and thinking of EIA analysts and why they…
Read More...Once a month, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysts issue the agency’s Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), their best guess about where energy prices and production will go in the next 12 months. The EIA issued the January STEO yesterday. Among its latest predictions is that the growth rate for natural gas production will slow this…
Read More...Yes, we’ve noticed. The Henry Hub NYMEX futures price for natural gas soared yesterday. It has been on an upward trend for the last six trading days in a row. Yesterday, the NYMEX price jumped $0.21 (6.6%) to close at $3.19 per MMBtu. Spot (physical) prices have also moved higher. What’s causing it? And will…
Read More...EQT CEO Toby Rice appeared on CNBC’s ‘Money Movers’ program last Friday to discuss what he expects for natural gas prices this year, what lower natural gas production means for EQT, and more. It was an interesting segment (watch it below; it is just four minutes long). Rice said, among other things, that a key…
Read More...The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is out with official numbers for 2023 concerning the price of natural gas traded at the benchmark Henry Hub in southern Louisiana. The Henry Hub natural gas price averaged $2.57 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) in 2023, about a 62% drop from the 2022 average annual price. Bear…
Read More...It is that time of year when various analysts, agencies, organizations, and everyone else offer their predictions for 2024. When it comes to what will happen with the price of natural gas, we like to select various predictions that we think are interesting and offer a view we find compelling. We spotted such a prediction…
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Read More...It seems like everybody and his brother (and sister) are making predictions about where the price of natural gas will go in 2024. We’ve covered predictions from a number of sources, including the venerable U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). But what do the people who actually trade in natural gas say? What’s their take on…
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