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For producers — and anyone else who prefers that gas prices are higher rather than lower — the good times won’t arrive until 2013. But then prices could shoot up as high as $10/MMBtu on demand strength coupled with constraints in the rig and oilfield services sector, while global markets draw liquefied natural gas (LNG) away from U.S. shores, according to analysts at Wood Mackenzie.

For producers — and anyone else who prefers that gas prices are higher rather than lower — the good times won’t arrive until 2013. But then prices could shoot up as high as $10/MMBtu on demand strength coupled with constraints in the rig and oilfield services sector, while global markets draw liquefied natural gas (LNG) away from U.S. shores, according to analysts at Wood Mackenzie.

It was no surprise to anyone seeing prices fall by major amounts across the board Friday. Despite modest support from the previous day’s screen rise of 5.7 cents, the lack of weather-based demand and the usual weekend decline of industrial load were a considerable depressant on the cash market.

Anyone watching North American natural gas prices might blanch at the thought of christening a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, but Spain’s Repsol forged ahead recently with the opening of its Canaport facility at Mispec Point, near Saint John, NB. Repsol Energy North America (RENA) President Phil Ribbeck noted that winter is coming and he expects cargo traffic to ramp up soon and into next year.

Anyone watching North American natural gas prices might blanch at the thought of christening a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, but Spain’s Repsol forged ahead recently with the opening of its Canaport facility at Mispec Point, near Saint John, NB. Repsol Energy North America (RENA) President Phil Ribbeck noted that winter is coming and he expects cargo traffic to ramp up soon and into next year.

Anyone looking to the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and wondering where all the liquefied natural gas (LNG) is need only look across the Atlantic to the United Kingdom, where gas prices are higher and tanker traffic is brisk, an analyst noted Monday.

In the months and years ahead if anyone in Texas asks where demand for gas among power generators has gone, the answer will be blowing in the wind.

Anyone who hopes to site a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the West Coast should be realistic about the time and effort it may take, a FERC commissioner and a regional expert said in separate presentations last week in San Francisco.

Anyone watching and listening to energy markets knows that with higher and more volatile commodity prices comes the more frequent utterance of words such as “speculation” and “manipulation,” often in the same breath.