With analysts highlighting looser balances to start the week, including a dip in export demand, natural gas futures were trading lower early Monday. The April Nymex futures contract, set to expire Wednesday, was down 3.4 cents to $2.719/MMBtu at around 8:30 a.m. ET; the May contract was off 3.4 cents to $2.733.
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Shell Joins Energy Transfer to Advance LNG Exports in Lake Charles, LA
A unit of Royal Dutch Shell plc and Energy Transfer LP (ETP) have signed a project framework agreement (PFA) to jointly develop a large-scale natural gas export facility in Lake Charles, LA, with capacity of 16.45 million metric tons/year (mmty).
Barclays Raises ’19, ’20 U.S. NatGas Price Outlook on Tight Storage, Rising LNG Exports
Spring may be in the air — and the natural gas market in the doldrums — but higher prices are on the way later this year and next amid tighter storage balances and a steep ramp-up in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports ahead of next winter, according to Barclays Commodities Research.
LNG Analysis ‘Breakthrough’ at FERC Not a Breakthrough After All, Says Glick
An agreement touted by Chairman Neil Chatterjee last month as a “significant” breakthrough in FERC’s evaluation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal applications may not live up to the hype, according to at least one Commissioner.
U.S. LNG Onslaught Proving ‘Too Much to Handle’ for Asian Markets
Analysts with BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research said Thursday the onslaught of U.S. natural gas exports may be too much for the Asian market to digest, which means there is more pressure for European demand to balance the global markets.
Venture Global Secures Another FERC OK for One Louisiana LNG Project
The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place for one of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities proposed by Venture Global LNG Inc. on the Louisiana coast after federal regulators on Tuesday approved full site preparation for the Calcasieu Pass project.
Tetco’s Stratton Ridge Expansion to Feed Freeport LNG Project
Federal regulators on Monday approved the start-up of Texas Eastern Transmission’s (Tetco) portion of the Stratton Ridge Expansion project, which is designed to provide natural gas to the Freeport LNG Development LP export project on the upper Texas coast.
U.S. LNG Exports Set to Surge This Summer Despite Maintenance, Project Delays
Cheniere Energy Inc. remains ahead of the race in sending U.S. natural gas into the global marketplace, but other developers continue to face delays that put into question the timing of a more than 7 Bcf/d projected bump in feed gas deliveries.
Natural Gas Marketers Finish in Positive Territory with Gains in NGI’s 2018, 4Q Surveys
There was plenty of good news from most of the 24 leading natural gas marketers participating in NGI’s Top North American Natural Gas Marketers rankings, which reported a 5% increase in their total sales volumes in 4Q2018 compared with 4Q2017, capping off a year in which they posted a combined 6% increase compared with 2017.
Venture Global LNG Doubling Capacity at U.S. Gulf Coast Facilities
Venture Global Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Inc. is doubling its global business due to strong customer demand, with construction set to commence “imminently” on one of its two planned U.S. Gulf Coast export facilities, the developer said Thursday.