natural gas

March Nymex natural gas futures ended nearly unchanged on the plus side in the week’s opening session as the market locked onto near-term weather forecasts for mild conditions ahead of an expected blast of mid-February cold. At A Glance: Futures flat Supply worries Spot gas up The front-month contract settled at $2.082/MMBtu, less than 1.0…

March Nymex natural gas futures settled the week’s closing session up 2.9 cents as the market looked beyond near-term warmth toward a colder end to February with buying possibly triggered by short covering and bargain hunting at current lows.  At A Glance: Futures gain on possible cold Upside support limited by production Cash down with…

Editor’s Note: NGI’s Mexico Gas Price Index, a leader tracking Mexico natural gas market reform, is offering the following column by Eduardo Prud’homme as part of a regular series on understanding this process. On the last day of January, Mexico’s Supreme Court delivered a verdict that could potentially end President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s efforts…

Chevron Corp. generated company-record natural gas and oil production in 2023, punctuating a broader U.S. industry trend. American gas and crude output both reached all-time highs last year and remained elevated early this year as exploration and production (E&P) companies were striving to meet mounting global demand, even amid soft near-term prices. Chevron said it…

March Nymex natural gas futures settled the Thursday regular trading session down 5.0 cents day/day, turning negative after the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported a storage withdrawal that was within market expectations. At A Glance: 197 Bcf storage draw meets expectations Neat-term warmth pressures Spot gas prices move higher The front-month contract drifted on…

ExxonMobil’s goal to advance its natural gas and oil trading arm is gaining momentum, as the company eyes more opportunities in the global market, CEO Darren Woods said Friday. Woods discussed the supermajor’s fourth quarter and full year results during a wide-ranging conference call.  “We saw energy prices and refining margins start to normalize in…

Enterprise Products Partners LP said it benefited from higher natural gas prices during January’s winter storm and was looking ahead to 2024 when any other commodity price bounces would add to volume-driven growth. The Houston-based midstream company shipped and processed record volumes of natural gas in 2023, alongside 11 other operational records in the year,…

Mexico’s nascent LNG market could be impacted by the decision of U.S. authorities to pause export licenses as they review methodology and guidelines. The liquefied natural gas export projects planned in Mexico, which amount to as much as 6 Bcf/d, would use U.S. natural gas as feed stock. As such, they require U.S. Department of…

Mexico’s natural gas production averaged 4.3 Bcf/d in 2023, the highest full-year figure since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, took office in December 2018. The amount was up from 4.09 Bcf/d recorded in 2022, and 3.81 Bcf/d in 2019, data from upstream regulator Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) show.  Crude oil production, meanwhile,…