Natural gas prices have weakened in recent weeks, but they may weaken even more in the coming weeks because of two things: corrections to the “huge” inventory overhang and weakening oil prices, which will put pressure on gas prices in the short term, according to Lehman Brothers in its latest “Oil & Gas: Exploration & Production Update.”
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Screen and Less Cold Than Expected Weaken Cash
It was a mostly softer swing market Monday, but with very littleconsistency in price movement. New quotes ranged from down around20 cents at Northeast citygates, which tended to see last week’sbiggest increases, to 2-5 cents higher in California, where alow-inventory OFO by PG&E helped boost demand. Other points inbetween were flat to down more than a nickel, with most of thedrops being in the vicinity of a nickel.
Bidweek Mostly Softer; Aftermarket Looks Firmer
Prices continued to weaken at nearly all points Tuesday in boththe incremental and October bidweek markets. Offshore supplies wereslow in returning from hurricane-related outages, but tradersseemed to discount that factor and to depend on abundant gaselsewhere to take up the slack. They also observed that weather andstorage fundamentals remain weak.