Energy / Natural Gas

Oct 24, 2011 at 07:35 | FX Empire

After starting the week sharply higher, confirming the previous week’s closing price reversal bottom, December Natural Gas futures closed lower for the period.  The rally early in the week marked…

Oct 19, 2011 at 07:34 | Eurasianet

The recent discovery of a sizable, new natural gas field in the Caspian Sea is giving officials in Azerbaijan additional reason to cheer. But the discovery also is highlighting a…

Oct 19, 2011 at 07:31 | Al Fin

The new gas to liquids plant in Qatar is the equivalent of a new giant oil field, in terms of production. But rather than producing crude oil, its main products…

Oct 17, 2011 at 08:23 | FX Empire

Technical traders could not have asked for more from December Natural Gas futures last week. Not only did the contract post a daily closing price reversal bottom on October 13,…

Oct 10, 2011 at 07:48 | FX Empire

Bucking this week’s trend in the other energy products, December Natural Gas futures made a new low for the year, closing at 3.821. Technically the market continued to walk down…

Oct 03, 2011 at 07:21 | FX Empire

November natural gas futures continued its slide last week, closing sharply lower and showing no indication that a bottom is even in sight. Production is high and last week’s larger-than-expected…

Sep 30, 2011 at 04:04 | Ed Dolan

To an alien orbiting Earth in a flying saucer, natural gas flares would be one of the most visible signs of human life on earth. Notice I said “human life,”…

Sep 27, 2011 at 01:49 | Brian Westenhaus

A lawsuit in Pennsylvania has put the state’s natural gas production at risk.  Thousands of oil and gas properties in the Marcellus Shale thought to have the ownership of the…

Sep 27, 2011 at 01:47 | Stuart Burns

Chesapeake Energy is not resting on its laurels as the No. 2 producer of natural gas in the US. So awash is the US with gas following the release of…

Sep 26, 2011 at 04:36 | John Daly

Energy-rich Britain is about to be subjected to a full court media press after Cuadrilla Resources announced that it has discovered huge underground deposits of natural gas in Lancashire, up…

Sep 26, 2011 at 04:21 | FX Empire

The downtrend continued in Natural Gas last week as the November futures contract plunged to a new low for the year at 3.745. Bearish fundamentals and a weakening technical picture…

Sep 19, 2011 at 07:30 | FX Empire

Like crude oil, November Natural Gas appeared to be set up for a strong surge to the upside and finish for the week, but supply came in much larger than…

Sep 12, 2011 at 07:34 | FX Empire

For the first time in seven weeks, natural gas futures failed to make a lower-low on the weekly charts. The inside week that was produced may be a sign of…

Sep 07, 2011 at 07:36 | RFE/RL staff

It all started with great fanfare last year in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where Ukraine's newly elected President Viktor Yanukovych and his cheerful-looking Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, signed a…

Sep 05, 2011 at 08:06 | FX Empire

After spiking up to 4.13 after the release of last week’s inventory report and on speculation of a production shutdown because of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, natural…

Aug 30, 2011 at 08:36 | Gail Tverberg

Theoretically, we have a very large amount of resources of many kinds available–oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, gold, fresh water. There is a relatively small amount of high quality, inexpensive-to-extract…

Aug 29, 2011 at 07:54 | Brian Westenhaus

The Marcellus Shale formation that extends across eight U.S. states has a new estimate out from the US Geological Survey (USGS).  The new estimate of the reserve was increased from…

Aug 29, 2011 at 07:48 | FX Empire

Natural Gas futures remained under pressure last week as traders assessed the potential impact of Hurricane Irene on supply and demand. The consensus is that after the hurricane passes, temperatures…

Aug 23, 2011 at 19:07 | FX Empire

Last week October Natural Gas rebounded from a 5-month low to close off the low. Despite the comeback on Friday, the trend remains down with no sign of a change…

Aug 15, 2011 at 09:19 | FX Empire

October natural gas futures bucked the trend of most commodity markets last week by posting a strong 2.75% gain to finish at 4.071. Technically the market posted a weekly closing…