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 financial crisis [...]
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 new office in [...]
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 of this is [...]
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 at the fastest [...]
By Duncan Sutherland- Exclusive to Gas Investing News
Contracts for August delivery of natural gas slid before the weekend as Tropical Storm Dolly appeared to be dissipating. However, the storm intensified into a hurricane early in the week, spurring precautionary shutdowns of some oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. Reuters is reporting that [...]
Tuesday, October 7, 2008