In a year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and upended at times by an historic hurricane season, leading natural gas marketers posted lighter sales volumes for full-year 2020, according to NGI’s Top North American Natural Gas Marketers ranking.

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It marked the second consecutive year of lower overall levels. A global supply glut and weak prices weighed on volumes in 2019. Last year was defined largely by demand destruction imposed by virus outbreaks and necessitated production pullbacks in the spring.

A slew of storms that pushed into the Gulf Coast during last year’s record hurricane activity further interrupted U.S. natural gas production on several occasions over the summer and early fall. Hurricanes and tropical storms caused temporary but notable declines in output...