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Storage Buying Cited as Price Surge Continues

Sources indicated that storage injection season is already well under way before what is usually considered its traditional start date — April 1. That demand source, along with continuing solid screen support, were cited as reasons why Thursday’s start of the April aftermarket saw even bigger price jumps in most cases than the one with which March business ended Wednesday.

April 1, 2005

Futures Repelled From $6 Assault Due to Heavy Resistance

Despite closing almost 2 cents up on the day, some market-watchers considered Tuesday a loss for August natural gas futures as morning trading levels as high as $5.96 could not be sustained. The prompt month tapped out at $5.805 on the downside in afternoon trading before settling at $5.837, up 1.9 cents on the day.

July 21, 2004

CERA Sees High Gas Prices Until 2007, When LNG May Offer Some Relief

If the natural gas market is considered to be in a crisis now, or at least difficult straits, the outlook for the market ahead is anything but settling, according to a study released by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and sponsored by Accenture last Monday.

July 19, 2004

CERA Sees High Gas Prices Until 2007, When LNG May Provide Some Relief

If the natural gas market is considered to be in a crisis now, or at least difficult straits, the outlook for the market ahead is anything but settling, according to a study released by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) and sponsored by Accenture Monday.

July 13, 2004

LNG Considered the Next Global Energy Business

With natural gas demand continuing to build around the world and a number of countries looking for the chance to supply it, the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry could emerge as the second global energy business, according to Michael Stoppard, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) director of Global LNG.

February 16, 2004

LNG Considered the Next Global Energy Business

With natural gas demand continuing to build around the world and a number of countries looking for the chance to supply it, the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry could emerge as the second global energy business, according to Michael Stoppard, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) director of Global LNG.

February 12, 2004

Canadian Energy Trusts Considered Risky by S&P

Canadian energy income funds, which have gained favor with investors with successful exploitation of oil and gas properties in mature basins — many in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin — received an overall low rating in a new report by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service (S&P) last week.

January 19, 2004

Project Alpha Conviction Considered Significant for Prosecutors

In a significant victory for federal prosecutors who are pursuing other high-profile fraud cases post-Enron, a Houston jury late Thursday convicted former Dynegy Inc. executive Jamie Olis, 37, on six counts of fraud.

November 17, 2003

Weekend Price Dive Shows Up as Scheduled

The dam burst on an already weakening cash market Friday. Following a record-high storage injection report and the screen’s plunge of just over 60 cents in response Thursday, nobody was surprised to see weekend numbers fall by anywhere from 40 cents to nearly 80 cents. Declines ranging from a little less than half a dollar to 60 cents dominated the market.

June 16, 2003

Northern Pipes, LNG Considered Key to North American Gas Shortage

North America’s unquenchable thirst for natural gas could grow to 89 Bcf/d by 2015 (from about 59.4 Bcf/d last year), necessitating a push to expand existing liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities and begin development of two northern natural gas pipelines, energy executives said in Houston last week.

February 17, 2003