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We saw a slight recovery in crude prices Friday (December 19, 2014) with CME NYMEX West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures up $2.41/Bbl from Thursday’s close. At the same time CME NYMEX Henry Hub natural gas futures were down $0.18 to $3.464/MMbtu.
In the dead of the natural gas winter season when US producers count on strong margins from higher gas prices, the Transco Z6 New York hub is trading on average nearly flat with U.S. benchmark Henry Hub, LA – the delivery point for the CME NYMEX natural gas futures contract.
The need for natural gas processing capacity, new or expanded NGL pipelines and other infrastructure in the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford has spurred a competitive frenzy among midstream companies.
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) CME NYMEX crude futures settled yesterday at $55.93/Bbl, down 52% since June 2014 and NYMEX Henry Hub natural gas futures settled at $3.619/MMBtu.
Developing new natural gas pipeline capacity in the Northeast isn’t easy. Environmental rules are tough, local citizens are well-organized, and—in New England in particular—the electricity market structure is not, shall we say, pipeline development-friendly.
The U.S. has a surplus of light hydrocarbon liquids – much of it in the form of field condensate produced at the wellhead and plant condensate extracted from natural gas at processing plants. Declining domestic demand leaves both field and plant condensate increasingly reliant on export markets.
Production of natural gas liquids in the liquids-rich Permian Basin and Eagle Ford has been rising even more quickly than had been predicted a year or two ago.
Hardisty is the main export hub for Western Canadian crude travelling to market in Eastern Canada or the U.S. That role will expand when (and if) the TransCanada Keystone XL and Energy East pipeline projects are completed.
The NATGAS Appalachia weekly report provides the data and insights to monitor the northeast natural gas market’s twists and turns and identify the risks and opportunities along the way, including tracking supply-demand trends, outbound capacity and their impact on takeaway pipeline utilization, and regional prices.
The development of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities is picking up steam.
Six months ago, the natural gas forward price for 2021 averaged $5.15/MMBtu. Back then a producer could hedge forward production at that price. Today 2021 is only $4.63/MMBtu, a decline of $0.52/MMBtu even though we are now in the middle of the winter. Today the forward ma
