North American natural gas futures gained some ground on Thursday but overall, prices continued to languish. After six straight sessions of losses, the New York Mercantile Exchange contract for April rose on Thursday by 8.3 cents/MMBtu day/day to settle at $1.741. There was little room for optimism, though, for natural gas bulls. AccuWeather said the…
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Selling Weighted to Front of Natural Gas Forward Curves on Weak Near-Term Fundamentals
Against a backdrop of soft near-term fundamentals, exceptionally weak spot market pricing and plummeting Nymex futures, regional natural gas forwards came under widespread bearish pressure during the March 7-13 trading period, NGI’s Forward Look data show. For a market still threading the needle between near-term oversupply and anticipated future demand growth, selling was weighted toward…
Freeport LNG Said Close to Restarting Train 3 – Three Things to Know About the LNG Market
NO. 1: Power usage at the Freeport LNG export terminal was ramping up on Thursday, according to Wood Mackenzie, as the facility prepares to restart its third train. The liquefaction unit has been offline since January, when extreme cold caused electrical issues at the plant on the upper Texas coast. An industry source with knowledge…
Weakest Winter Suppresses Natural Gas Prices but Sizzling Summer Could Flip Script
The winter of 2023-2024 is likely to go down as the warmest on record for the United States. That goes a long way toward explaining why natural gas demand and prices deflated over the course of the heating season. Ahead of an official call later this month by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),…
Elba Island LNG Secures Positive Environmental Assessment from FERC
Federal regulators have found that Kinder Morgan Inc. (KMI) and its partners in Elba Island LNG could proceed with a 0.4 million metric tons/year (mmty) expansion project without significant environmental impact. Elba Liquefaction Co. LLC, a joint venture between KMI, Blackstone Credit and an undisclosed third party, filed a request with FERC last October to…
Permian Natural Gas Compression Demand Climbing, Says Kodiak CEO
Kodiak Gas Services Inc.’s customers in the Permian Basin are clamoring for more natural gas compression as they prepare for the next wave of LNG exports, according to CEO Mickey McKee. The CEO recently discussed the uptick in demand by exploration and production (E&P) customers in announcing the latest quarterly results. The company, headquartered in…
China’s LNG Buying Off to Strong Start This Year
China imported nearly 13% more LNG in the first two months of the year compared to the same time in 2023 as lower spot prices have encouraged Chinese buyers to close more deals. China’s imports of the super-chilled fuel reached 14.03 million tons (Mt) in January and February, up from 13.50 Mt during the same…
SilverBow Reviewing Kimmeridge Proposal to Form Biggest Eagle Ford Pure-Play
SilverBow Resources Inc.’s board plans to “carefully review and consider” a proposal from activist investor Kimmeridge Energy Management LLC to merge its natural gas production subsidiary in a tie-up that could become the largest South Texas exploration and production company. In a letter to shareholders, Kimmeridge proposed to merge Kimmeridge Texas Gas LLC (KTG) into…
Tourmaline Cutting WCSB ‘24 Natural Gas Production Amid Low Prices, Remains ‘Super Constructive’ on ‘25
Tourmaline Oil Corp., the largest natural gas producer in Canada, is reducing 2024 natural gas production in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) by about 100 MMcf/d from previous guidance, or 4% essentially eliminating any gas growth in 2024, “and we definitely think that’s the right thing to do,” CEO Mike Rose said. Tourmaline is…
NextDecade Looks to Ink Contract with Bechtel for Rio Grande LNG Expansion by July
As NextDecade Corp. progresses construction on the first three trains for its Rio Grande LNG project in Texas, it is working to firm up contracts for its second phase by the middle of the year. Houston-based NextDecade last year broke ground in Brownsville, TX, on the first three trains of the facility, which could add…