Living in Fast Forward Curves – Doing the Midwest Natural Gas Supply Stack Shuffle

An average of 13 Bcf/d of natural gas flows into the Midwest from producing regions in Canada, the Midcontinent, the Southeast and the Rockies. Over the past 7 years the region has been in the crosshairs of major infrastructure and supply changes to the North American natural gas market, starting in 2008 with the Rockies Express (REX) pipeline and continuing today as surplus Northeast supplies reverse pipeline flows and push into the Midcontinent. Today we begin our look at rapidly evolving fundamentals in the Midwest by describing changing supply sources.