North American Gas Trading 1Q2010: 'A Market in Search of Demand'

Natural gas prices and demand are likely to continue to stumble until a market is found -- or created -- according to one energy consultant. read more

Source: Quarterly financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or if necessary, statements signed by company officials and provided to NGI. Some previous-year data has been updated by the companies since it was originally reported.

Companies providing data directly to NGI include BP, Chevron, Citigroup, ConocoPhillips, EDF Trading NA, JP Morgan, Louis Dreyfus, Macquarie Energy, Merrill Lynch, RBS Sempra, Shell Energy and Tenaska. *Macquarie integrated Constellation Energy's gas trading business into its operation at the beginning of April 2009. No combined data is available for 1Q2009. Macquarie Energy data reflects Macquarie Energy LLC's transactions in the United States and Macquarie Energy Canada's transactions in Canada. **The gas volume figures for Apache, Chesapeake, Devon, EnCana, ExxonMobil and XTO represent the amount of North American gas produced in the quarter. Those companies may be marketing more third-party gas for sale. *** Due to a resubmission of data, RBS Sempra's total for 1Q2010 was increased to 9.50 Bcf/d on 6/24/2010 from the originally reported 6.40 Bcf/d, taking them from 8th place to 5th place in the quarterly rankings. The change increased the total for all companies from 144.59 Bcf/d to 147.69 Bcf/d.

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