“No storm hype here,” a Gulf Coast producer said Friday morning in classic understatement. Usually the approach of a tropical storm toward the Gulf of Mexico production area is a surefire guarantee of higher gas prices, but it was not to be this time. Despite the likelihood of increasing offshore shut-ins over the weekend, traders sent cash prices lower by anywhere from a couple of cents to nearly 30 cents at border-SoCalGas; most declines were on either side of a dime.
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‘Buy Early, Sell Late’ is a Winning Strategy as Prices Rise
Few traders would dispute that Wednesday was a classic day forwanting to buy early and sell late. Sources reported prices risingsteadily during trading at virtually every point, with the highends of ranges occurring late in the morning. Increases of a dimeor more dominated the market, and Northeast citygates were seeingthe high side of $3 again in some deals.
CA Fights FERC For Control of ISO and PX
In a classic states’ rights confrontation, California ischallenging FERC jurisdiction over the operation of the state’s twononprofit organizations created to make electric restructuring runsmoothly, the Independent System Operator (ISO) overseeing thetransmission grid and the Power Exchange (PX) providing a wholesalespot electricity market. Two bills have been proposed in the statelegislature to change the status of the ISO and PX in directresponse to FERC jurisdictional questions.