Snapshot

Giving energy market participants a more detailed snapshot of the types of market participants and their current positions in an effort to boost market transparency, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) this week rolled out more than three years of history of disaggregated data included in the weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) reports.

A ten-year snapshot of California’s natural gas future could re-touched or rendered out of focus in the months ahead, depending on more current residential/commercial demand data and whether or not the state’s sagging economy rebounds, according to one of the principal authors of the California Energy Commission’s (CEC’s) last staff gas assessment.

A ten-year snapshot of California’s natural gas future could re-touched or rendered out of focus in the months ahead, depending on more current residential/commercial demand data and whether or not the state’s sagging economy rebounds, according to one of the principal authors of the California Energy Commission’s (CEC’s) last staff gas assessment.

U.S. offshore production of natural gas fell slightly; thenumber of new pipeline projects in the Gulf of Mexico droppeddramatically; Texas — the nation’s leading gas producer — tookhits to its production and consumption levels; California andWyoming experienced a robust boost in production; California sawthe sharpest rise in gas demand; residential users enjoyed theirsecond straight year of lower delivered gas prices; and pipelineimport capacity expanded considerably.

U.S. offshore production of natural gas fell slightly; thenumber of new pipeline projects in the Gulf of Mexico droppeddramatically; Texas — the nation’s leading gas producer — tookhits to its production and consumption levels; California andWyoming experienced a robust boost in production; California sawthe sharpest rise in gas demand; residential users enjoyed theirsecond year of lower delivered gas prices; and pipeline importcapacity expanded considerably.