Seeming

While there are still many regulatory and technology hurdles, the seeming inevitable union of clean coal carbon capture and storage in the power industry with carbon dioxide-hungry enhanced oil recovery (EOR) seems more likely to take place in the current world of $100/bbl oil and a push to lessen the future impact of global climate change. Ultimately how and how much value is placed on carbon dioxide (CO2) will have a lot to say about the impending marriage.

Seeming to hitch its wagon to petroleum futures once again, June natural gas followed both crude’s plunge in the morning and its climb in the afternoon. With a hint of irony, June natural gas ended up settling 5.2 cents lower on the day at $6.748, the same price at which May natural gas futures expired a day earlier.

Another Friday, another price rout. In a seeming rerun from a week earlier, weekend prices tanked hard Friday in response to lack of weather-related load and a bearish storage report in which the 81 Bcf injection exceeded most prior expectations.

With natural gas price spikes finally seeming to ease after asix-month-long roller coaster ride, U.S. electricity generatorshave taken the experience as a warning, but vow to stick withnatural gas as their go-to plant-firing source.

With natural gas price spikes finally seeming to ease after asix-month-long roller coaster ride, U.S. electricity generatorshave taken the experience as a warning, but vow to stick withnatural gas as their go-to plant-firing source.