Leticia Gonzales

Natural gas bears picked up right where they left off last week, slaughtering the Nymex futures curve on Monday as feed gas deliveries to a pair of Gulf Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals continued to decline and weather forecasts showed heat mostly limited to the southern United States for the next couple of weeks.

Tulsa-based Oneok Inc. is expanding its natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure in North Dakota and West Texas with “low-cost, capital-efficient projects” that meet its customers needs, the company said Thursday.

After more than a year of waiting for a federal permit, Tallgrass Energy LP is pushing back the expected startup for its Cheyenne Connector natural gas pipeline to early 2020, management said.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports may begin from the first production unit at Cameron LNG after federal regulators on Friday approved in-service for the Hackberry, LA, terminal.

The owners of a major natural gas pipeline traversing the Gulf Coast are urging federal regulators to approve a plan to use unsubscribed capacity and a new compressor station to provide nearly 0.5 Bcf/d of additional firm transportation service to accommodate liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.

With the core of summer quickly winding down, natural gas forward prices continued to decline during the July 19-24 period as an intense heat wave that had blanketed the U.S. Northeast earlier in the week moved out of the region. August prices shed 6 cents on average, as did balance-of-summer (August-October) prices, according to NGI’s Forward Look. The prompt winter (November 2019-March 2020) was down an average 7 cents, while next summer (April-October) was down just 3 cents on average.

With the core of summer quickly winding down, natural gas forward prices continued to decline during the July 19-24 period as an intense heat wave that had blanketed the U.S. Northeast earlier in the week moved out of the region. August prices shed 6 cents on average, as did balance-of-summer (August-October) prices, according to NGI’s Forward Look. The prompt winter was down an average 7 cents, while next summer (April-October) was down just 3 cents on average.

Costly natural gas pipeline delays in the Northeast have generated “a lot more interest” in DTE Energy’s pipeline platforms to move volumes from the Appalachian Basin, management said Wednesday.

Another wave of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply is preparing to hit the open seas as developers of the Cameron LNG project on Monday asked federal regulators for authorization to place its first production unit and related facilities into service by Friday (July 26).