natural gas price forecast

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is slashing its projected 2024 average Henry Hub natural gas spot price by 14% versus its month-earlier forecast after observing record lows for the benchmark in February, the agency said Tuesday. EIA, in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), modeled an average Henry Hub price of $2.27/MMBtu for 2024,…

Henry Hub natural gas spot prices are set to remain subdued at around $2.40/MMBtu in February and March amid unusually mild weather, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in an updated forecast Tuesday. In its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA said it expects Henry Hub spot prices to average $2.650 for full-year 2024,…

The U.S. natural gas market is predicted to be oversupplied this year from a warmer-than-normal start to the year and declining demand, which are likely to suppress prices into 2024. Energy analysts trimming their domestic natural gas price forecasts include BMO Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs Commodity Markets, Jefferies and Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. (TPH).  …

Click here to listen to the latest episode of NGI’s Hub & Flow. NGI senior editors Andrew Baker and Kevin Dobbs discuss the outlook for North American natural gas prices in 2023. They address factors including a mild weather start to the year, robust U.S. production, the Freeport LNG outage and the potential for future…

Discounted pricing at the NOVA/AECO C natural gas hub in Southern Alberta is likely to remain a fact of life over the near term, even if pipeline expansions and LNG exports in Western Canada come online as scheduled, according to experts. Abundant gas supply from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) and limited egress capacity…

U.S. energy bankers expect to see “sustained increases” in global natural gas and oil prices – at a higher level than predicted earlier this year. According to the Fall 2022 Energy Price Deck Survey of 23 energy bank executives that was conducted in October by Haynes and Boone LLC, the forecasts showed significantly increased near-term…

Natural gas futures prices rebounded on Wednesday as weather forecasts once again hinted at colder temperatures and a major export facility affirmed its intention to relaunch this month, offsetting expectations for a stout government inventory report. At A Glance: Weather outlook shifts colder Futures jump 55 cents day/day Solid storage injection projected The December Nymex…

Click here to listen to part three of NGI’s three-part Hub & Flow podcast series that discusses how the North American natural gas market works and details behind the tools that are available to successfully navigate it. Trying to understand where the price of natural gas at the Henry Hub is headed? In part one,…

Natural gas prices see-sawed Tuesday as traders weighed modest near-term domestic heating needs against an anticipated freeze early next month and surging demand for U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG). Ultimately, the latter factors carried the day, and the January Nymex gas futures contract advanced 3.5 cents and settled at $3.869. February gained 1.6 cents to…