Moving away from more traditional supply and demand side fundamentals, gas prices and the costs of production may increasingly be leveraged by oversight, share holder accountability, and seasonal meteorology.
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Market News: The American Energy Information Administration (the U.S. Government’s register of official energy statistic) is still forecasting an increase in home heating costs over the winter. The EIA did note that its figures were subject to change as new information about the extent of the [...]
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 Post-Ike news In the wake of Hurricane Ike, a steady flow of updates on production, refining and transportation infrastructure has been forthcoming. Overall, it seems the storm was relatively gentle to energy companies, reserving its wrath for the population centres of the Texas Gulf Coast. Natural [...]
Natural-gas futures closed nearly 2% higher Friday on concerns that Hurricane Ike may disrupt energy production for a long period by damaging refining infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico region. James Williams, an economist at WTRG Economics, said: Hurricane Ike puts about 20% of the U.S. production of crude oil and natural gas in the [...]
U.S. equity indices are higher in overnight trade. In the pre-opening trade S&P 500 futures are up 12points in response to less than feared damage from Hurricane Gustav. For more information, click here
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Market news Natural gas futures fluctuated in response to Hurricane Gustav’s threatening track through the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend. As of Tuesday morning, they were hovering in the mid US$7 range. Thankfully, ‘Gustav’ weakened significantly and did not appear to cause much damage to [...]
Natural gas jumped 6% amid speculation that Hurricane Gustav will slash through the Gulf of Mexico next week, paring output from production platforms. Chris Jarvis, president of Caprock Risk Management LLC in Hampton Falls, N.H, said: The question is whether it hits northern Mexico and southern Texas, or does it head for the big production areas” of the [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Market news Ouch! Natural gas futures are hovering at six-month lows, in the mid-high US$7 range, on the NYMEX. Down by almost half their values in July, futures contracts reflect a growing conventional wisdom that demand is not going to keep up with American production “rising [...]
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Gas Investing News Natural gas has been hit hard lately, losing approximately 40 per cent of its price in the last one month itself; a number eclipsing even the oil price collapse. A report in the business section of the Globe and Mail has a an in-depth article detailing [...]
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