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If the latest Energy Information Administration storage report goes without revision--a big if in some traders' minds--then natural gas markets are likely to fall under $6/MMBtu through the latter half [...]

The most impressive cold wave of the 2004-05 winter is poised to strike the Plains, Great Lakes and Northeast regions over the Jan. 15-17 weekend, in the process staunching a [...]

Natural gas end-users can be excused for being furious at how December bid-week trading played out, with baseload price indices for the month heavily influenced, and inflated, by what the [...]

The elephant sitting in the middle of the natural gas markets--record-high and still-rising storage inventories entering the heating season--has grown too big for traders to ignore. [GRAPHIC OMITTED] Cash and [...]

It's official--US natural gas storage inventories have built to the highest level in recent memory, and it doesn't seem to matter, given persistently high price levels even after a late-week [...]

Bears are in full command of natural gas markets near-term with no weather loads on the horizon, storage rapidly filling, and powerful Hurricane Frances likely to inflict a heavy toll [...]

Bearish near-term factors, including a seasonal ebb in weather loads and high storage inventories, continue to pressure natural gas lower and have many market watchers wondering where prices will find [...]

Unusually mild weather for early July had natural gas markets caught in a holding pattern ahead of the long Independence Day weekend, with the outlook still widely bullish for the [...]

US coal markets are unusually tight heading into the summer, and producers and analysts are warning of potential delivery problems in the eastern US that could hamper coal generation and [...]

Is it possible that the natural gas industry could have too much data on its hands? The question seems absurd on its face given a chronic shortage of timely government [...]

Coalbed methane from Wyoming's Powder River Basin may not prove the supply panacea as billed by many in the natural gas industry, based on disturbing well data emerging in the [...]

The Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) is working to set up a committee to lobby for the interests of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) members, Natural Gas Week [...]

Weather forecasts for mid-October have turned bearish, which should allow the recent torrid injection pace into storage--after an interruption from chilly eastern temperatures last week--to continue. Any weather-related weakness in [...]

True shoulder-month weather and expectations for heavy storage injections should weigh on gas prices in the weeks ahead, barring any hurricane developments in the Gulf of Mexico producing region. But [...]

Gas markets enter the Labor Day holidays with bearish weather conditions in store for major consuming regions, but other wildcards loom which may ultimately drive trading. Several hurricane threats lurk [...]

Another major pipeline project--the Georgia Strait Crossing sponsored by Williams and BC Hydro--has apparently run aground on the same regulatory shoals threatening two planned northeast pipelines, according to FERC staff. [...]

Warning that there are few short-term solutions to quell volatility in natural gas markets, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham Thursday called on Congress to take steps to help the country diversify [...]

Sentiment in natural gas trading is being tugged by two countervailing trends -- storage injections point to a substantially looser market owing to currently high prices, yet anxiety is widespread [...]

The price spikes that so many pundits anticipate for the gas market this summer are likely to be held off through early June due to widespread mild weather in forecasts [...]

It is hard to find a bear these days in gas markets, but even some long-term bulls believe the market may have overextended itself after last week's technical rally. Fundamentals [...]

Recent weeks of persistently mild US weather have been a blessing for end-users in helping quell overheated gas prices, but few analysts expect the softness to last with heavy storage [...]

The natural gas market is in an extremely precarious position due to low storage stocks and continuing weather-related demand, but the extent of the industrial 'demand destruction' and damage to [...]

The steady rise in winter gas prices -- punctuated by last week's record-breaking spike at the New York Mercantile Exchange -- harkens back to the 2000-01 heating season when US [...]

The flurry of operational flow orders, reports of wellhead freeze-offs, and pipeline imbalance penalties reconfirmed last week the overwhelming influence of inter-regional cold temperatures on the natural gas market--and set [...]

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) released the final version of its 2003 Annual Energy Outlook last week which largely echoed its preliminary findings from two months ago (NGW Nov. [...]

Nothing even remotely heats up the US natural gas market like some severe cold weather, and the idea that winter doesn't even begin until Dec. 22 has the gas price [...]

The regulatory and financial uncertainty borne from the renegotiations of California's long-term power contracts is setting the stage for the next crisis in natural gas markets, according to a noted [...]

A new study finds that expanding Rockies gas supplies can meet incremental growth in the western US over the next several years, presuming no more environmental and access roadblocks are [...]

Problems with the quality of gas market data could hit a new low as early as next month, when the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) may be forced to release [...]

The natural gas market is being tugged in both directions by countervailing forces--hurricanes, oil prices and plummeting supply versus mild temperatures, abundant storage, and anemic demand--but prices remain relatively strong [...]

Early producer earnings reports confirm that a deliverability problem looms ahead for the gas industry (see story p4), bolstering the case for intermediate-term market bullishness. But that factor for now [...]

This week's storage report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) will be a key indicator of the current balance between gas supply and demand in the absence of significant economic, [...]

Natural gas market players still expect summer's heat to help trim the current working gas in storage surplus, and still expect production declines to significantly tighten the market going forward, [...]

The rising influence of merchant power plants is altering how US gas pipelines operate and, as utilities and some regulators fear, to the potential detriment of other customers' service. These [...]

With each passing week of the 'shoulder' period for the domestic natural gas market, price bullishness is growing in anticipation of summer's power generation demand and the return of heavy [...]

In a month's time, gas traders should brace for a bearish 147 Bcf upward revision to storage inventories. The looming change is one of psychology rather than substance. It represents [...]

Two distinct, powerful, and opposing fundamental factors have emerged as the main drivers of the natural gas market, but ultimately weather will again determine how 2002 plays out for prices. [...]

Distrigas would like to boost its imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into Boston. The mayor of Boston would like Distrigas to go away. Amid this tug-of-war rests the ate [...]

Most market fundamentals are still firmly bearish, but natural gas seems to have recaptured all, if not more, of the market share it lost to competing crude oil products during [...]

This spring has served up a hard lesson to bulls that more power plants are not necessarily a cause for celebration in the natural gas market. Pundits often point to [...]

Fuel switching was a critical component in rebalancing volatile winter gas markets and, judging from the torrid pace of recent storage injections, many former gas buyers remain off this spring. [...]

A land rush is underway in the Rocky Mountains that, like the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, is set to transform the region into the playground of the [...]

Perception is everything in gauging the state of US gas supply. Expectations weren't set particularly high for deliverability growth and, as first-quarter numbers roll in, producers generally are clearing that [...]

Telecommunications is becoming a big business for energy companies. Williams - the first big energy firm to expand into the telecom business 16 years ago - has plenty of company. [...]

Predicting natural gas production is a risky enterprise, as industry pundits have learned. But it's a good bet that quarterly data released this spring will show supply has been accelerating [...]

Shipments for the precision instruments industry have increased in 1999 and the near-term prospects for the industry are optimistic for the year 2000 and for the next three to five years as well. The precision instrument industry is comprised of a diverse universe of companies and there are various economic factors which will affect demand in the future, however. Advances for industry sales and earnings are expected to be modest in the year 2000 and investors must be able to tolerate some risk with these shares.

Electronic products designed for global markets must meet both national and international standards for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Measurements based on these standards fall into two basic categories of electromagnetic (EM) [...]

North American gas prices appear poised to fall in the second half of winter despite the recent onslaught of bullish weather in the northeastern US. Storage inventories remain robust and [...]