Forward Look

After a meaningful step higher over the past week or so, natural gas futures steadied a bit on Tuesday and traded in a tight range. Small deviations in supply and demand ultimately sent the May Nymex contract down 2.2 cents to settle at $2.727, while the June contract slipped 1.5 cents to $2.803. Spot gas…

April chills brought higher futures prices and modest shoulder season gains for natural gas forwards throughout the Lower 48 during the trading week ending April 14, according to NGI’s Forward Look. For the April 8-14 period, fixed prompt-month prices at Henry Hub added 10 cents to average $2.619/MMBtu. Stronger prices at the national benchmark, which…

A major revision in the April weather forecast coming back from the Easter weekend took a big chunk out of natural gas forward prices for the period ending April 8. The short work week ended with the May contract down an average 10.0 cents and the balance of summer (May-October) off 7.0 cents, according to…

Natural gas forward markets remained quiet as they closed out March, with near-record export demand going head to head with generally weak domestic demand. The May contract, which took over the prompt-month position on Tuesday, finished the period ending Wednesday (March 31) essentially flat from where it averaged on March 25, according to NGI’s Forward…

Natural gas forward prices posted modest increases across the majority of U.S. markets for the trading week ending March 24, buoyed largely by record export demand, according to NGI’s Forward Look. With the spring shoulder season underway, gas bulls have struggled to gain momentum in recent weeks. Aside from stormy weather patterns that could drive…

The recent addition of the Agua Dulce pricing location to NGI’s Forward Look offered natural gas buyers on either side of the Texas-Mexico border insight into any lingering concerns related to last month’s energy crisis. Now, Mexican market players are looking to Agua Dulce forward curves to gain further understanding of key issues in the…

Natural gas prices trimmed about a nickel or so from the forward curve as spring appears to have sprung a couple of weeks early. The April contract was down 6 cents on average for the March 4-10 period, while the summer strip (April-October) was down 4.0 cents, according to NGI’s Forward Look. Similar losses were…

Shoulder season may be setting in across U.S. natural gas forward markets weeks ahead of schedule, with modest price changes seen across the country, according to NGI’s Forward Look.  A quick return to business as usual following last month’s historic winter freeze combined with near-perfect temperatures to drive April forward prices up only 6.0 cents…

In an ongoing effort to improve its robust natural gas futures pricing indexes, Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) is adding three new pricing locations — Agua Dulce, Transco Zone 2 and Transwestern — to our Forward Look curves, effective March 1. As exports moving natural gas south of the border continue to grow, the addition of…