Raymond James bumped down its natural gas price forecasts for the third and fourth quarter, and also dropped its gas price forecast for 2004 to $5.50 from $6.00/Mcf after analysts reviewed recent trends in U.S. fuel switching thresholds. Linking oil and gas pricing for the past several years, analysts said they now have enough data to more accurately predict how high prices have to go before “meaningful” fuel switching-related demand destruction begins to occur.
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Energy Prices Boost Conoco, Marathon 2Q Profits
Conoco Inc., the fourth largest U.S. energy company and USX-Marathon Group, the sixth largest, bumped up their second quarter profits and met or exceeded analysts’ projections, mostly because of higher energy prices during the period. Houston-based Conoco, which acquired Calgary’s Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. in the quarter, saw earnings rise almost 32%, while its cross-town neighbor USX-Marathon, the energy business of USX Corp., exceeded expectations, with income up 59%.
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Due to nomination increases exceeding available capacity reducedby a lost engine at Station 315, Tennessee bumped flowingInterruptible services (IT-X, IT, AOT, PAT, Payback, EDS/ERS) andrestricted nominated services through Secondary (IT-X, IT, AOT,PAT, Payback, EDS/ERS, Secondary) for meters downstream of MLV 314on the 300 line effective 1700 for yesterday’s gas day.