Power generation has been the engine of natural gas demand growth since before the turn of the century. Now that gas price and supply worries have sparked talk of new-build coal-fired generation, some gas fans may fret that the industry’s heyday is coming to an end.
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Consultant Sees NatGas Continuing to Outgrow King Coal
Power generation has been the engine of natural gas demand growth since before the turn of the century. Now that gas price and supply worries have sparked talk of new-build coal-fired generation, some gas fans may fret that the industry’s heyday is coming to an end.
Isabel Keeps Coming, But Prices See Double-Digit Dips
Putting hurricane worries aside for at least the weekend, traders bowed Friday to near-term forecasts of mild to cool weather in most of the U.S. and Canada and the bearish day-later reverberations of a storage injection report that wasn’t much shy of 100 Bcf. Nearly all points recorded double-digit losses; the overall range was from less than a dime to 30 cents.
AEP: Response to Debt Offering Should Ease Liquidity Worries
Lingering concerns in the minds of some investors as to whether American Electric Power (AEP) is facing a liquidity crunch should be eased in the wake of a recently close debt offering by four of the company’s subsidiaries that yielded more than $2 billion in proceeds, a top official with AEP told a gathering of investment professionals last week.
AEP: Massive Debt Offering Should Lessen Liquidity Worries
Lingering concerns in the minds of some investors as to whether American Electric Power (AEP) is facing a liquidity crunch should be eased in the wake of a recently close debt offering by four of the company’s subsidiaries that yielded more than $2 billion in proceeds, a top official with AEP told a gathering of investment professionals on Thursday.
Massey Worries About Poorly Configured RTOs
FERC Commissioner William Massey last Thursday voiced concerns that the plans of several electric utilities to join grid operators based outside of their companies’ own regions could lead to the formation of not one, but two poorly crafted regional transmission organizations (RTOs) in the United States.
Sharp Declines in Energy Stocks Erased Following Fed Decision
Financial accounting worries and a wave of bad news from several energy companies added to the negative pressure in the larger stock market early Wednesday before investor sentiment took a turn for the better in the late afternoon.
Storage Issues, Weather, Screen Help Cash Soar
The cash market made another big surge Monday as traders debatedwhether storage worries or new weather forecasts carried the mostweight in the renewed bullishness. Gains tended to range from abouta quarter to more than a dollar in Transco’s Zone 6 pools in theNortheast. Some production area points were exceeding January indexlevels.
New Dives Ignite Worries of Sub-$1 Weekend Gas
It didn’t take long to eclipse what had been the lowest-everprices for a December date recorded by Daily GPI, and the new lowmarks weren’t even close to the ones seen earlier in the week.Continuing record warmth in the eastern two-thirds of the nationyielded record low gas prices for this time of year. Gulf Coastnumbers were almost a dollar under December indexes only three daysinto the month.
1997 Reserves Replacement Hefty for Some
Despite predictions of waning gas supplies and worries over Gulfof Mexico production potential from some, several companies aretouting boom years for reserve replacement with some settingrecords. The strong reserve replacement came in a year when gasproduction is said to have seen only a modest increase of abouthalf a Bcf. Much of the good news for reserve replacement comesfrom oil and international operations, but domestic gas fared well,too, according to some company reports.