Leading natural gas marketers collectively lost ground with sales volumes in 1Q2021, continuing a two-year trend of year/year declines, according to NGI’s Top North American Natural Gas Marketers rankings.

The 25 gas marketers included in NGI‘s latest quarterly assessment* reported combined sales transactions of 126.06 Bcf/d for the first quarter.

The 23 covered companies with comparable year-earlier data available reported a total of 118.98 Bcf/d in 1Q2021, down 3.1% from 122.82 Bcf/d in 1Q2020.

It marked the seventh year/year decline over the last eight quarters, according to NGI’s Top North American Natural Gas Marketers rankings. The flat result posted for 3Q2020 proved an exception.

The uncertainty created by the coronavirus weighed on marketer efforts early...