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Traders longing for the days of wide natural gas basis spreads can look to natural gas liquids (NGL) and crude oil to get their arbitrage fix, according to Bentek Energy LLC.

IHS CERA chairman Daniel Yergin, whose expertise about all things energy has made him a go-to authority, said Tuesday the world’s energy supply and demand picture is less clear today than it was a year ago.

Influences did not look conducive for higher prices. Only the Northeast was expected to see winter-like conditions extend into the weekend while most other regions moderated to seasonably cool fall weather; a larger-than-expected storage build report from the previous day ensured that heating season inventories would be more than adequate; and that led to November futures expiring 6.6 cents lower on Thursday.

Anyone nostalgic for the natural gas infrastructure boom of the latter half of the last decade need only wake up to the natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure boom of today — and look forward to what’s to come in response to growing crude oil production — according to an analysis due to be finished in about three weeks.

Anyone nostalgic for the natural gas infrastructure boom of the latter half of the last decade need only wake up to the natural gas liquids (NGL) infrastructure boom of today — and look forward to what’s to come in response to growing crude oil production — according to an analysis to be finished in about three weeks.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) should look at the full term of a swap and evaluate the liquidity of the transaction based on that term to determine whether it should be subject to mandatory clearing, a coalition of 10 energy and agriculture groups said.

The House-Senate “super-committee” tasked with selecting $1.2-1.5 trillion in additional cuts to the federal deficit by the end of the year should look first at breaks for the oil and natural gas industry, said 12 environmental and conservation groups in a letter to Senate and House leaders.

The House-Senate “super-committee” tasked with selecting $1.2-1.5 trillion in additional cuts to the federal deficit by the end of the year should look first at breaks for the oil and natural gas industry, said 12 environmental and conservation groups in a letter to Senate and House leaders.

The energy security risks of the United States worsened significantly in 2010 and could remain uncomfortably high for the next 25 years without changes to “a bewildering set of energy policies and layers of complex regulations,” according to the second edition of an annual report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.