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Entries Tagged as 'price of natural gas'

Asian Demand Pushes Up U.S. Natural Gas Prices

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments

One of the things I love about the Financial Times (the “pink” paper) is that their articles are short and to the point and they do not bleed from one page to another.  Anyway, the following piece from today’s paper puts further flesh on the bones of my recent LNG post to the point that U.S. natural gas prices are under pressure from the higher prices extant in other countries because U.S. ports are being outbid for LNG shipments.  This piece highlights Asian demand factors.  It also describes changing …

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Tags: LNG · demand for gas · price of natural gas · supply of gas

Natural Gas Prices May Have Further to Go for Good Reason

April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

An in-depth report on the market for natural gas in today’s Wall Street Journal focuses on the competition between the U.S. and Europe for LNG.  The price of gas over there is around $20 per mmcf, nearly double that here.  So there is good reason to suspect that over time the two prices will come closer as either supplies loosen up there or prices rise here in order to attract more LNG.  Most of the fundamentals that I have notice recently suggest prices will more likely remain high in …

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Tags: LNG · demand for gas · price of natural gas · supply of gas

Natural Gas Reserves Could Be Huge But Prices Are Headed Higher

March 7th, 2008 · No Comments

There seems to be much less discussion and analysis of the supply and demand dynamics for natural gas than for crude oil and other liquids.  Here is a link to the web site of the Natural Gas Supply Association, an industry trade group, that is replete with data and information about supply and demand vectors. This web site maintains that unproven NG reserves in the U.S., according to several sources that are presented, are about 6 - 9 times the proven reserves.  If such reserves become …

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Tags: demand for gas · price of natural gas · supply of gas

EIS Newsletter # 12: March 4, 2008

March 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

2008 Thus Far: A Preview of Coming Attractions

My concern has been that at some point shortages of oil will cause a falling-stocks, rising-oil phenomenon that will crush my oil related stocks along with the whole market. 2008 has started like that. Oil was up 6.34% as of 2/29 (per the ETF symbol OIL) but stocks were down 8.5% (in terms of the S&P 500 ETF symbol SPY). For oil-related stocks, the falling stock market trumped the rising oil market, as I have expected. IYE, a broad-based oil-stock ETF, was down …

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Tags: Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COSWF) · Cree (CREE) · Newsletter · Peak Oil · electrical efficiency · ethanol · hybrid vehicles · price of natural gas

Huge B.C. Natural Gas Find Boosts Some Stocks

March 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

An enormous discovery of natural gas fields in the northeastern Horn River Basin area of British Columbia has caused several stocks to take a vertical price trajectory.  The new fields are made feasible to develop thanks to new horizontal drilling and subsurface fracturing techniques.  On the other hand, the cost of drilling such wells is huge.

Here is a more complete report:
Huge discoveries in northeast ignite ‘massive land grab’ for drilling rights
DAVID EBNER

From Monday’s Globe and Mail

March 3, 2008 at 4:03 AM EST

CALGARY — The remote and rugged northern fringe of …

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Tags: price of natural gas · supply of gas

Investment Idea: January 6, 2008

January 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Time to Step Aside

Greetings from snow-bound Crested Butte. CO.  I was supposed to be driving to California this weekend for two weeks on a Sausalito houseboat, but the gigantic west coast storm moving in my direction changed my schedule. The storm may be fortuitous – and symbolic. It provides time for reflection on the storm that raged in the stock market last week. And also the Iowa electoral storm that shook up the political world.

The stock market looks a lot like last August when the credit and mortgage market problems …

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Tags: Investment Ideas · Price of oil · price of natural gas

New US Natural Gas Projects Seen Boosting Supply, Easing Prices (pdf 7k)

July 20th, 2007 · No Comments

U.S. gas stocks are at near-record levels.  New gas supply from the Independence Hub in the deep waters of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and from the Rockies Express Pipeline out West could put downward pressure on gas prices some analysts predict. read full post

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