| 1. Pickens: Natural Gas Could Hit $14; Cheap Oil Gone Forever
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Apr 4, 2008
The price of natural gas may be poised to go as high as $14/Mcf in the near future, according to independent oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens.
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| 2. Bear Stearns' Crack-Up Affects Gas Trading, Prices |
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Mar 18, 2008
In the wake of the last-minute rescue of the Bear Stearns financial house by JPMorgan Chase over the weekend, the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) spent Monday reassuring traders that all their trading members, including Bear Energy and MF Global, were meeting their obligations.( more )
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| 3. Raymond James Bears Still Expect Gas Prices to Collapse in Late Summer |
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Mar 11, 2008
Recent weather-driven improvements in the U.S. natural gas market notwithstanding, Raymond James & Associates Inc. energy analysts are holding to their contrarian view on U.S. gas prices. A major gas supply increase this summer, brought on by increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments, "should translate to gas-on-gas competition" later this year.( more )
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| 4. Energy Analysts Hike 2008 Gas Price Forecasts |
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Apr 8, 2008
With natural gas storage at the end of the winter heating season considerably lower than expected, the natural gas bears at Raymond James & Associates Inc. have switched sides and are again running with the bulls through 2008. Two other energy analysts also raised their gas price forecasts through the rest of the year.( more )
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| 5. Summer to Cool Down -- or Heat Up -- U.S. Gas Market |
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Apr 22, 2008
Summer weather -- and the U.S. economy -- may be the most important factors affecting the natural gas market over the coming six months, according to energy analysts.( more )
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| 6. CERA: LNG to Become Freely Traded; 'Armada Already Set Sail' |
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Feb 14, 2008
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is set to become a more freely traded flexible worldwide commodity and will reshape the global market's traditional pricing and contracting prices, with most of the new supply flowing to North America, according to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). ( more )
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| 7. Long, Hot Summer Holds Potential for Double-Digit Gas Prices |
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Apr 1, 2008
If April-June weather is roughly in line with the National Weather Service (NWS) outlook, U.S. natural gas storage may enter July down about 500 Bcf compared to a year ago -- setting up the potential for double-digit gas prices this summer, according to one energy analyst.( more )
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| 8. Raymond James: Robust Supply Growth Will Suppress Summer Prices |
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Mar 18, 2008
Despite missing the mark with an earlier bearish projection, analysts at Raymond James & Associates Inc. are sticking to their fretful view of summer gas prices based on the strength of production growth from unconventional basins and "an anticipated uptick in summer LNG [liquefied natural gas] imports."( more )
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| 9. Independence Hub Production 'Suspended' One to Four Weeks Due to Leak
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Apr 10, 2008
The deepwater Gulf of Mexico Independence Hub natural gas platform and the associated Independence Trail pipeline were closed Wednesday after a leak was discovered in the pipe, according to Enterprise Products Partners LP, which owns 80% of the production platform and 100% of the pipeline.
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| 10. Saracen Energy's 'Unfavorable Positions' Seen as Boosting Gas Futures
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from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index Feb 19, 2008
Energy traders were abuzz Friday as reports circulated that Houston-based hedge fund Saracen Energy Partners LP is the latest to join the ranks of organizations that have recently recorded large losses on wrong-way trades in the natural gas futures market. Some traders pointed to the fallout as explanation for this week's spike in natural gas futures.
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