May natural gas is set to open unchanged Thursday morning at $4.53 as traders expect a government storage report to show increases that were about in line with long-term averages yet well short of levels needed to fully restore working gas inventories. Overnight oil markets slumped.
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Traders See Market Consolidation; May Called A Penny Higher
May natural gas is set to open a penny higher Tuesday morning at $4.57 as traders discount the breach of a monthly trend line and mull increased storage injections. Overnight oil markets slumped.
Industry Brief
Halcon Field Services, a unit of Halcon Resources Corp., is proposing to build a storage and rail-loading terminal for Utica Shale oil at the Ohio Commerce Center industrial rail park in the village of Lordstown, in Trumbull County, OH. Plans call for four bay truck racks, a 20-rail car loading platform, and six 90,000 bbl storage tanks. The $50-$60 million project is to be completed in three phases, with the first phase expected to go into service by the end of this year. A zoning variance was recently approved to allow construction to begin.
Consol JV Cracks Upper Devonian Code
Consol Energy has drilled its first Upper Devonian Shale well, in Greene County, PA, with results that bode well for the 300,000 acres it controls with commercial Upper Devonian potential.
Steelmaker Nucor to Spend More Than $700M on Gas Drilling
Steel manufacturer Nucor Corp. said it will spend more than $700 million during a two-year period on natural gas drilling in order to meet its contractual obligations with Encana Corp. for a supply of low-cost natural gas.
EQT Proposes Compressor Station to Relieve Marcellus Constraint
EQT Gathering LLC has filed an application to build and operate the Derry Compressor Station in Westmoreland, PA, and other compression facilities to move natural gas from the Marcellus Shale region to interstate markets.
Magnum Hunter Builds Output on Added Marcellus Pipe Capacity
Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. is planning to build production through the rest of this year from its substantial asset base in the Appalachian Basin after being knocked back early this year from a lack of pipeline capacity for natural gas liquids (NGL), CEO Gary Evans said last week.
Magnum Hunter Readies Growth on Added Marcellus Pipe Capacity
Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. is planning to build production through the rest of this year from its substantial asset base in the Appalachian Basin after being knocked back early this year from a lack of pipeline capacity for natural gas liquids (NGL), CEO Gary Evans said Tuesday.
Florida Power Has Choices for Winning NatGas Pipe Project
Move over Florida Gas Transmission (FGT), Southern Natural Gas, Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC and Cypress Pipeline because Spectra Energy Corp. wants to build a 465-mile interstate natural gas pipeline into the Sunshine State.
Spectra Energy Seeks to Build New Florida Pipeline
Move over Florida Gas Transmission (FGT), Southern Natural Gas, Gulfstream Natural Gas System LLC and Cypress Pipeline because Spectra Energy Corp. wants to build a 465-mile interstate natural gas pipeline into the Sunshine State.