Category: Natural Gas
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The Golden Age of Gas, Possible Says Head of IEA / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
The potential for a golden age of gas comes along with a big "if" regarding environmental and social impact. The International Energy Agency (IEA)--the "global energy authority"--believes that this age of gas can be golden, and that unconventional gas can be produced in an environmentally acceptable way.
Monday, January 27, 2014
US Natural Gas Glut To Gas Panic – Time For A Bull Run / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Andrew_McKillop
Feast to Famine
Friday 24 January, as global stock markets and emerging market currencies took another hit, natural gas in the US – the world's lowest priced gas - soared by 9.6% in a single day, rising to $5.18 per million British thermal units (MBTU) pricing it at $30.04 per barrel of oil equivalent at the Henry Hub. Over the week, prices gained close to 20%. US gas prices on Friday were at their highest since June 2010.
Related to the Emerging market exit panic and the US taper down threat, from the Fed buying $85 billion a month of “troubled debt and assets”, to a mere $75 billion a month, investors had to run somewhere. Starkly underpriced US natural gas was the weekly winner.
Reeling back the story to 2010, the last time US gas was priced at $30.04 per barrel of oil equivalent, compared to the “natural price of oil” at nearly $100 a barrel, the “shale gas revolution” had gone critical and was running riot. Today, the sequels are coming fast.
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Friday, January 17, 2014
Five Ways to Play the End of the Natural Gas Renaissance: Bill Powers / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: The_Energy_Report
Shale gas is not the foundation of U.S. energy security that conventional wisdom claims, says Bill Powers in this interview with The Energy Report. But as shale gas peters out, the law of supply and demand will drive gas prices up. Powers, an independent analyst and author of "Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth," sees a good future for gas-leveraged junior companies, and shares his top ideas as demand and price skyrocket in tandem.
The Energy Report: Bill, you published a book six months ago, "Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth," questioning the conventional wisdom of shale gas. Have events supported your thesis?
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Natural Gas Price Looking Bullish / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Gregor_Horvat
It's been a while since I looked at Natural gas. But, I see some nice price action now, so I decided to share it. There was a nice three wave decline from the high followed by an impulsive rally above the upper trendline of a corrective channel. That's a bullish pattern that is pointing back to 4.58. Any short-term retracement back to 4.210/250 should be corrective and temporary.
Thursday, November 07, 2013
The Best Investing Opportunity of the Decade / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon writes:At the end of our October 21 update on Cheniere Energy Inc. (NYSE: LNG) and the liquefied natural gas revolution, we promised to bring you an additional LNG recommendation.
Today we're keeping that promise.
And the company we're recommending is Cheniere Energy Partners LP (NYSE: CQP).
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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
The Best Way to Grow Your Money 10% or More a Year / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Robert Hsu writes: Financial planners like to put you in one of two camps:
The "growth camp," which they say is right for younger investors, and the "income camp," which they say is proper for retirees and those close to retirement.
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Sunday, August 11, 2013
Syrian Gas Triangle And Its Risk-Prone Future / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Andrew_McKillop
GAS DIPLOMACY
Reuters reported from Doha, Qatar, 8 August that Saudi Arabia has offered Russia economic incentives including a $15 billion arms-buying deal and a pledge not to challenge Russian gas sales in Europe, if Moscow scales back or abandons support for Syrian President Bashr al-Assad. The proposed deal was reportedly set out by Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan in a four-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow last week.
Thursday, August 01, 2013
Natural Gas Price Is Primed for a Big Move / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Investment_U
Sean Brodrick writes: Are you looking for a rip-roaring bull market? Take a long, hard look at natural gas.
Its price increased 40% to 60% during the first half of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012. If the S&P 500 did that, fat-cat bankers would do cartwheels down Wall Street.
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
Technology Advancements Changing the Fossil Fuels Game / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: OilPrice_Com
Oil and gas is getting bigger, deeper, faster and more efficient, with new technology chipping away at "peak oil" concerns. While hydraulic fracturing has been the most visible revolutionary advancement, other high-tech developments are keeping the ball rolling--from the next generation of ultra-deepwater drillships, subsea oil and gas infrastructure and multi-well-pad drilling to M2M networking, floating LNG facilities, new dimensions in seismic imagery and supercomputing for analog exploration.
Friday, June 28, 2013
Why Natural Gas Stocks are Poised to Take Off / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Tony Daltorio writes: Everyone likes a good comeback story where large obstacles are overcome on the way to a favorable outcome.
And we're about to see one in the investment world...
The shale gas boom seemed to be a disaster for the natural gas industry as the price of natural gas plummeted over a five-tear period to reach a multi-year low below $2 per million BTU in April 2012.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
How Exporting US Natural Gas Will Transform Global Energy Markets / Companies / Natural Gas
By: The_Energy_Report
Here's the situation: North America is swimming in cheap natural gas, whereas international markets are thirsty for it and paying a premium. Now that the DOE is beginning to approve LNG export permits, North American producers have major incentive to drill, baby, drill. To get an expert perspective on the coming LNG supply shift, The Energy Report turned to Cantor Fitzgerald Analyst Sam Wahab, who keeps tabs on global oil and gas developments from his base in London. This is a must-read interview for anyone who wants to profit from a potentially massive shift in natural gas fundamentals.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
The Global Race for Shale Natural Gas Development / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Marin_Katusa
Guess who the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) says has 430% more proven gas reserves than the US?
Guess who has twice as much as the US in shale gas technically recoverable?
Guess who has over twice as much proven oil reserves as the US?
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Drillers Pay Hush Money to Keep Their Fracking Toxic Secrets / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Tara Clarke writes: Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the art of separating oil from rock, has the potential of turning America into the world's top oil and natural gas producer.
But as with any bonanza it has some secrets oil and gas companies want to keep under wraps. And some companies are willing to put some big bucks behind that.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Hydro-Fracking Boom or Bust? / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: BATR
The economics of oil or natural gas hydrofracking are seldom analyzed from the perspective of the American consumer. Most discussions focus upon the investment opportunities of specific companies, royalties to leaseholders, windfall tax revenues that state governments will benefit from and the bonanza that local communities will enjoy from the added business activity. Missing is a clear understanding of the pricing points and factors that will determine the actual selling charge and total all inclusive retrieval costs in the domestic market. Will the price of energy drop precipitously or will the net effect be that the native end user sees no direct benefit from the rush to drill?
Monday, June 10, 2013
A Huge Liquid Natural Gas LNG Energy Boom Has Begun / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Money_Morning
Peter Krauth writes: Oh, the law of unintended consequences and the opportunities it brings.
Thanks to the new standard of Keynesian Abenomics, the Nikkei has blasted 47% higher since November. The Yen has lost about 25% against the U.S. dollar in the same time.
While we don't know what the future will hold for these trends, there's something else going on that will not fade quickly: The weak Yen has made imports to Japan a whole lot more expensive...including energy.
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Friday, June 07, 2013
Investors Realize the Full Potential of Natural Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: The_Energy_Report
Ramping up domestic North American liquid natural gas production for export to pricier international markets could be a game changer for struggling junior explorers. In this interview with The Energy Report, C. K. Cooper & Company's Jeff Grampp tells us why drilling in domestic gas fields for export is a good idea. . .if the Feds play along. And he identifies promising juniors with leaseholds in particularly desirable fields.
The Energy Report: Jeff, if the Obama administration continues to authorize liquid natural gas (LNG) exports, will that benefit the juniors as well as the big producers?
Jeff Grampp: I believe all U.S. natural gas producers will generally benefit from an increase in LNG exports. Historically, the pricing dynamics of natural gas in the U.S. have been linked to local supply-demand dynamics. With an increase in the potential to export, domestic natural gas producers would be able to access higher priced markets internationally, particularly in Europe and Asia. There will also be local economic benefits tied to the creation of jobs at newly constructed exporting facilities.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
European Natural Gas Industry's Green Rage / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Andrew_McKillop
DYING IN GREEN TAPE
BusinessEurope president Jürgen Thumann speaking to EurActiv at the European Business Summit which opened 15 May, squarely blamed the European Commission for "the negative effects of green tape”, also saying EU regulations create ‘unnecessary burdensome legislative instruments in climate, energy and environment policies’. One of these is the so-called Third energy package, which is supposed to encourage Europe's gas importers, producers, pipeline transporters, distributors and users, because gas is cleaner-burning, lower emission and therefore preferable to coal for power generation. Gas-fired power is also the fastest-response, best backup power choice to run with renewable power.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
The Coming Natural Gas Boom - These Will Soon be the World's Most Profitable Corporations / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: DailyWealth
Porter Stansberry writes: I'm extremely bullish on natural gas.
That might sound strange to you. If you've been reading our work for any amount of time, you've heard about new drilling techniques that have produced a tremendous glut of natural gas in the U.S.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Europe's Forced Reappraisal Of Shale Gas / Commodities / Natural Gas
By: Andrew_McKillop
EYES SET WEST
European policymakers at Commission level, in European Council of ministers meetings, and in national governments now curtly say that the shale gas issue is "very political", because the subject will not go away. Allowing shale gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing to move ahead is already politically correct - in some countries such as Poland - and may soon also become correct in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The logjam is breaking.
Thursday, May 02, 2013
Gazprom Backs Down And Cuts Its Prices / Companies / Natural Gas
By: Andrew_McKillop
THE SLIPPERY SLOPE - FOR GAZPROM
Gazprom has a deserved reputation for price gouging, but only little different from Qatar, Norway and Algeria, all of which have endlessly delayed biting the bullet and accepting to cut gas export prices to Europe, by abandoning "oil indexation" of prices. As some economists say, how would it be if world wheat prices were "indexed" to cotton, rice, or iPhone prices? Would that be "rational" or as Gazprom, and Qatargas, Statoil and Sonatrach have said in the recent past, "transparent"?