By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Market news The high US$6 – mid US$7 NYMEX future price seems to be relatively stable given the incredible volatility of other commodities and market indices. Though this stability is preventing gas investors from riding the same emotional rollercoaster that most other investors have boarded, it [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Market news A mild rebound for hard-hit natural gas futures has developed over the past few days. Like the Dow Jones, oil prices and the Asian market indices, natural gas futures are also in a state of flux. The instability is fairly easy to source: investors [...]
By Duncan Sutherland- Exclusive to Gas Investing News Company news The headline this week is obviously Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) and the Iraqi government putting ink to paper on a US$4 billion joint venture deal that will see the company collect flareoff from oil production in Southern Iraq’s Al-Basra province. In even better news, Shell opened a [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Market news The radical realignment of oil and gas prices after Hurricane Gustav’s relatively tranquil passage through the Gulf of Mexico has been interesting to watch. NYMEX futures showed light crude taking a body blow, while natural gas seemed to largely shrug off the news. Part [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Bloomberg reported that NYMEX natural gas futures have lowered to their lowest in six months. The huge decline in the past month is comprised of multiple factors. First, the increased output and stockpiles have reassured traders of supply security. Second, the commodity drawdown has lured hedging [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Welcome to the first edition of the Parse! This space hopes to provide a weekly digest of news, trends, and quirks in the global natural gas sector. It is fitting that this week saw major news concerning the gas field from which this column takes [...]
Hydrocarbons are the sine qua non of modern life. A short thought experiment illustrates the point rather well. Think of how your day would go if you couldn’t use the internal combustion engine, plastic, most electricity, the products of commercial agriculture or anything that has traveled by ship. If you pay even tangential attention to [...]
Thursday, November 6, 2008