Leading natural gas marketers reported a third consecutive quarterly decline in 4Q2019, though the rate of decline slowed significantly, and total sales volumes for full-year 2019 were off only slightly compared with 2018, according to NGI‘s Top North American Natural Gas Marketers rankings.

 

The 21 gas marketers that participated in both NGI‘s latest quarterly survey and the year-ago survey reported combined sales transactions of 113.99 Bcf/d in 4Q2019, a 2% decline compared with 116.89 Bcf/d in 4Q2018. The addition of four marketers since the 4Q2018 survey — Cima Energy LP (3.78 Bcf/d), Antero Resources Corp. (3.19 Bcf/d), Hartree Partners (1.91 Bcf/d) and Engie Energy Marketing NA (0.90 Bcf/d) — brought the 4Q2019 survey total to 123.77 Bcf/d.

 

It was the third consecutive...