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Oil and natural gas companies scrambled on Monday to determine the extent of damage to refineries, pipelines and offshore platforms in the immediate aftermath of the former Hurricane Ida, which made landfall in Louisiana packing winds near 150 mph. Ida battered Louisiana Sunday night as a Category 4 hurricane, delivering storm surges and flooding rains.…

Ida came in like the major hurricane she was, temporarily reversing the course of the Mississippi River and shutting down nearly all of the natural gas and oil produced in the Gulf Mexico (GOM). The aftermath also is looking to be long and difficult as thousands of people may be without power into the fall.…

Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp.’s first quarter oil and natural gas production, mostly pulled from the Permian Basin, is likely to be off by 8% because of the wintry freeze that gripped the country in February, the independent said Monday. Production has since been restored to pre-storm levels, with weather-related downtime “confined to the first…

U.S. feed gas deliveries were poised to hit their highest point in nearly two weeks on Tuesday as liquefied natural gas (LNG) export operations along the Gulf Coast continued ramping up after a historic winter storm nearly shut them down last week.  Feed gas deliveries have been climbing in recent days, surpassing 8 Bcf on…

Natural gas futures, fresh off a massive 12-cent climb, retreated a bit Friday as Hurricane Laura’s destruction slowly came into focus. Aided by a cooler weather outlook over the coming weeks, the October Nymex gas futures contract fell 5.3 cents to $2.657. November lost 2.7 cents to hit $2.916. Spot gas prices also were lower…

BREAKING: U.S. EIA reports a 45 Bcf injection into natural gas storage inventories for the week ending Aug. 21 Cameron LNG joins Sabine Pass in shutting down operations as Hurricane Laura slams Louisiana coast With a Category 4 hurricane targeting natural gas export facilities and other energy infrastructure on the Gulf Coast, gas traders struggled…

In an ominous sign of what may evolve to the end of the year, scorching heat across most of the country failed to spark a rally in natural gas forward prices for the July 16-22 period, according to NGI’s Forward Look. Instead, persistently weak global exports and continued uncertainty over the level of economic recovery…

A disruptive storm building strength over the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and upcoming government storage data gave natural gas futures traders plenty to ponder heading into Thursday’s regular trading hours. The August Nymex futures contract was up 2.6 cents to $2.470/MMBtu shortly after 8:30 a.m. ET.

October natural gas futures were trading about 1.6 cents higher Wednesday morning at around $2.842/MMBtu, stanching the bleeding from the prior session’s selloff as forecasts overnight showed summer heat easing toward the second half of the month.