natural gas storage

Natural gas futures collapsed further on Friday, settling at a level not seen in seven months as widespread warmth was seen continuing longer, limiting gas demand. The November Nymex natural gas futures contract closed out the week at $4.959/MMBtu, down 39.9 cents from Thursday’s close and off $1.494 from a week earlier (Oct. 14). At…

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After some hiccups earlier in Thursday’s session, natural gas futures managed to finish in the red for a fifth straight trading day as traders digested another massive storage injection. The November Nymex gas futures contract settled at $5.358/MMBtu, down 10.4 cents on the day. December slid 9.0 cents to $5.838. Spot gas prices continued to…

After some hiccups earlier in Thursday’s session, natural gas futures managed to finish in the red for a fifth straight trading day as traders digested another massive storage injection. The November Nymex gas futures contract settled at $5.358/MMBtu, down 10.4 cents on the day. December slid 9.0 cents to $5.838. Spot gas prices continued to…

Buckling under the weight of one triple-digit shoulder season storage injection after another, natural gas forwards sold off sharply during the Oct. 13-19 trading period, NGI’s Forward Look data show. Regional forwards price action from coast to coast reflected a market reconsidering the extent of winter upside risks in light of a rapidly shrinking inventory…

Stubbornly robust U.S. natural gas production and warmer weather has meant that storage inventories in the United States are filling up fast. In the South Central region north of Mexico, natural gas storage inventories are almost back to within five-year average levels. On Thursday, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data showed that the South Central…

Natural gas bears extended their streak to four on Wednesday, slashing futures prices even further amid renewed disagreement in the models regarding a late-October weather system as well as lofty production. The November Nymex gas futures contract settled at $5.462/MMBtu, down 28.3 cents on the day. Notably, steep double-digit losses extended through all of 2023.…

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported an injection of 111 Bcf natural gas into storage for the week ended Oct. 14. The result marked the fifth consecutive triple-digit increase and continued an autumn trend of narrowing deficits to historic averages. The build easily surpassed the 73 Bcf five-year average injection and the year-earlier increase…

As traders braced for another deficit-shrinking triple-digit storage build from the latest round of government inventory data, natural gas futures added to their losses in early trading Thursday.  After dropping 28.3 cents in the previous session, the November Nymex contract was off another 4.4 cents to $5.418/MMBtu as of around 8:50 a.m. ET. December was…