Marketer

Despite an overall production gain for natural gas, companies participating in the Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) North American natural gas marketer survey reported a 2 Bcf/d decline in sales volumes in 2011 compared with 2010, according to and NGI’s 2011 Top North American Gas Marketers Ranking.

Companies participating in NGI’s quarterly North American natural gas marketer survey reported nearly the same results in 4Q2011 as in the year-ago period, and a 1% decline in full-year 2011, compared with 2010. read more

Companies participating in NGI’s quarterly North American natural gas marketer survey reported nearly the same results in 4Q2011 as in the year-ago period, and a 1% decline in full-year 2011, compared with 2010.

As a Northeast marketer had predicted the day before, prices continued to move higher Friday (including several spikes) at citygates in his region, but moderate softness reigned in the rest of the market. The Northeast was bracing for a cold blast with temperatures bottoming out around freezing or lower. But although similarly frigid conditions were in the forecasts for the Midwest as far south as the Midcontinent and for the Rockies, those areas failed to find enough heating load to lift prices.

Natural gas storage — which during the energy marketer heyday was frequently described as an asset to be optimized — has come full circle, back to its pre-New York Mercantile Exchange roots, a storage development executive told NGI.

Natural gas storage — which during the energy marketer heyday was frequently described as an asset to be optimized — has come full circle, back to its pre-New York Mercantile Exchange roots, a storage development executive told NGI.

The executives who were behind energy marketing firm Eagle Energy Partners have launched a new Houston-based gas and power marketer called Twin Eagle Resource Management LLC, and they’ve hooked up again with one of their former investors, Chesapeake Energy Corp.

The executives who were behind energy marketing firm Eagle Energy Partners have launched a new Houston-based gas and power marketer called Twin Eagle Resource Management LLC, and they’ve hooked up again with one of their former investors, Chesapeake Energy Corp.

Southern Natural Gas disputes claims by an affiliate of a Houston-based natural gas marketer that the pipeline acted improperly by deviating from the usual approach for aggregating bids in awarding capacity during an open season that closed in August. Southern, an El Paso Corp. pipeline, was accused of violating its tariff and FERC policy.