Missing

AGL Resources Monday morning reported that the president of its Sequent Energy Management subsidiary — Douglas N. Schantz — went missing sometime early Friday morning during a business trip to New Orleans.

AGL Resources Monday morning reported that the president of its Sequent Energy Management subsidiary — Douglas N. Schantz — went missing sometime early Friday morning during a business trip to New Orleans.

With heating load continuing to recede and replacement cooling demand still missing in action for the most part, prices fell at nearly all points Thursday. Although softness had replaced firmness as the dominant characteristic of price movement, near-flat numbers were still in vogue as few points changed by a dime or more.

Despite missing out on the Independence Hub’s 900 MMcf/d of production for more than a month, the natural gas industry proved Thursday that it can still put healthy injections into storage after the Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported that 93 Bcf was deposited for the week ended May 9.

Despite missing the mark with an earlier bearish projection, analysts at Raymond James & Associates Inc. are sticking to their fretful view of summer gas prices based on the strength of production growth from unconventional basins and “an anticipated uptick in summer LNG [liquefied natural gas] imports.”

Despite missing the mark with an earlier bearish projection, analysts at Raymond James & Associates Inc. are sticking to their fretful view of summer gas prices based on the strength of production growth from unconventional basins and “an anticipated uptick in summer LNG [liquefied natural gas] imports.”

The energy markets experienced a roller-coaster ride in 2006 as hurricane and weather forecasts ultimately ended up missing their marks, while electronic energy trading competition increased and the banks in the energy merchant sector continued to evolve from peripheral participants to core market players.

The energy markets experienced a roller-coaster ride in 2006 as hurricane and weather forecasts ultimately ended up missing their marks, while electronic energy trading competition increased and the banks in the energy merchant sector continued to evolve from peripheral participants to core market players.

It is a case of the missing e-mail alert that was being debated in local California news media Tuesday regarding whether or not the nation’s largest natural gas distribution utility was alerted by the FBI last week concerning the potential threat to U.S. natural gas supplies and/or infrastructure as an outgrowth of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan. The FBI said they sent an e-mail; Sempra Energy’s Southern California Gas Co. in Los Angeles said it never received it.