Natural Gas Prices

Spot gas prices for Friday delivery lost ground across a broad front…

Analysts with U.S. Capital Advisors LLC said natural gas liquids prices are still "trying to find a floor," thanks largely to a more than 60% collapse in propane and butane prices, as propane inventories increase and several midstream companies begin to emerge as takeover targets and acquirers.

Physical natural gas prices for Thursday delivery waffled on Wednesday within a couple of pennies of unchanged for the most part. Modest gains in the Midwest, Midcontinent, and California…

Natural gas price forecasts, which had tumbled for months, may finally be firming up, with the Energy Information Administration expecting…

Physical natural gas for Wednesday delivery inched lower in Tuesday's trading with widespread losses of a few pennies to as much as a dime common at many trading points. Eastern points took double-digit hits as power markets were mixed, and major Hubs declined up to a nickel.

Ugly is the only way to describe the near-term environment for U.S. natural gas liquids prices, Raymond James & Associates Inc. said Monday.

It was a tale of two, if not three, markets Monday. Physical gas prices for Tuesday delivery in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic diverged sharply from all other market points primarily on short-term weather and power market changes, and the futures market had to deal with collapsing petroleum prices engineered in large part by a surging dollar resulting from economic fallout following a Greek "No" vote Sunday.

Natural gas futures worked higher following the release of government inventory figures showing an increase in working gas storage that was incrementally less than what the market was expecting.

Thursday was a great day to be a buyer if you needed natural gas for the extended holiday weekend, but buyers on average were few and far between, and spot physical prices fell, with numerous record lows recorded in the East.