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Natural gas futures were higher at the top of the week as searing heat blanketed much of the Lower 48, challenging record power loads and stressing grids. The September Nymex gas futures contract settled Monday at $2.632/MMBtu, up 8.1 cents from Friday’s settlement. October futures climbed 5.2 cents to $2.743. At A Glance: Long-range models…

Jera Co. Inc. has signed on as an offtaker from Venture Global LNG Inc.’s CP2 export project under development in Cameron Parish, LA.  Jera, Japan’s largest power company, has agreed to buy 1 million metric tons/year (mmty) of liquefied natural gas from CP2. Jera would buy the super-chilled fuel for a term of 20-years on…

Cooler weather ushered in by a strong spring storm over the weekend set the table for strong heating demand most of this week across the northern United States. That was enough to drive a modest increase for natural gas futures on Monday, with the May Nymex contract settling at $2.273/MMBtu, up 4.0 cents from Friday’s…

A new oil futures contract is coming to the Gulf Coast. Magellan Midstream Partners L.P., Enterprise Products Partners LP and Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE) said Monday they would partner to create a contract for the physical delivery of crude in the Houston area. The companies said the Midland WTI American Gulf Coast contract (ICE: HOU)…

Venture Global LNG Inc. has selected KBR Inc. to lead the first phase of construction for its Plaquemines liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project in a surprise announcement just months after KBR said it would exit the energy business.  Venture Global said as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor KBR would “integrate highly modularized,…

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) buyers beginning in October will be able to purchase physical volumes of the super-chilled fuel through CME Group’s new LNG futures contract, the company said Wednesday.

The August natural gas futures contract was set to open Wednesday about 2.3 cents higher at around $2.755/MMBtu, building on the prior day’s modest gains as forecasters noted little change to the weather outlook overnight.

New pipeline construction contracts for northern native-owned firms have accelerated preparations for a quick start on building a long-awaited liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal on the Pacific coast of British Columbia (BC).

The expiring July natural gas contract was set to open Wednesday about 4.8 cents higher at around $2.987/MMBtu as overnight guidance was mixed but with one of the major weather models showing greater cooling demand over the eastern and central United States next month.