February 16, 2021 – Natural Gas World
Winter Storm Wreaking Havoc in Texas [Update]
By Dale Lunan
About 34,000 MW of generation – including about 12,000 MW of wind generating capacity – was forced offline as Uri worsened through Monday. Many wind turbines in West Texas, not equipped with cold weather mitigation equipment, froze in the high winds, snow and cold temperatures, while some natural gas wells froze off and pipelines were forced to reduce throughout.
Sheetal Nasta, managing editor for RBN Energy, told NGW in an email February 16 that initial estimates put US gas production today at about 76.1bn ft3/day, down more than 10bn ft3/day from last Friday. With supply constrained, imports from Canada have averaged about 8.3bn ft3/day this week, up about 1.2bn ft3/day from last Friday, while feed gas into US LNG facilities is down 1.15bn ft3/day from February 12 as “triple-digit” prices make it more profitable to send gas back into the market than to Gulf Coast liquefaction terminals, Nasta wrote.
Read the full article here: https://www.naturalgasworld.com/winter-storm-wreaking-havoc-in-texas-85589
