Diving into annual FERC 552 Data, NGI’s Research & Strategy Director Patrick Rau analyzes what this required filing reveals about leading the U.S. natural gas market. Who leads the pack in terms of buying, selling and marketing natural gas in the United States? Tune in to Episode 110 of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast to find out.
Structural changes have led to a surge in demand for U.S. underground natural gas storage capacity, but capacity additions have been non-existent for the last decade plus. Is more on the way? Plus, a quick primer of the industry, including market share statistics.
Port Arthur reached FID earlier this year, but a recent decision from the U.S. Department of Energy could compromise many partially contracted projects going forward. Things appear to be pointing up in Mexico, and Canada could be preparing for another FID of its own.
The transportation sector has the highest reliance on fossil fuels, and with the International Energy Agency estimating that to get the sector up to speed with net zero goals – which it currently is not – emissions would need to drop to 6 gigatons (Gt) of carbon dioxide on an annual basis by 2030. For reference, the agency estimated that in 2021, emissions from the global transportation sector rose to 7.7 Gt after falling to 7.1 Gt during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Three decades ago, it appe...
NGI's Jacob Dick, associate editor of LNG, talks with Ira Joseph, global fellow with Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, about the global LNG price risks that still abound despite a relatively calm winter. Joseph shares his insight as a veteran global gas market analyst and researcher to provide context for where prices could be heading next and why Europe's energy crisis is far from over.
NGI Mexico and Latin America Editor Chris Lenton chats to LNG analyst Sergio Chapa of Poten & Partners about LNG in Mexico in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine. Which projects are getting built? What about Fast LNG? How is financing changing in the LNG segment in Latin America, and what are the advantages of Mexico LNG exports? This and more in the latest NGI podcast.
NGI's Patrick Rau discusses the slow pace of project FID decisions, potential longer-term challenges to future U.S. onshore LNG liquefaction projects, and touches on how the recently announced supply arrangement between Chesapeake and Gunvor could impact U.S. gas supply.
NGI Managing Editor Carolyn Davis chats with editors Kevin Dobbs, Morgan Evans and Jacob Dick about the most interesting things they heard during the 2023 CERAWeek by S&P Global in Houston. The editors talk permitting, exclusive insight from players in the LNG industry and the latest talk about natural gas in the energy transition.
Senior LNG editor Jamison Cocklin and special contributor Brad Hitch discuss Hitch's new column that was launched for NGI's LNG Insight earlier this year. Hitch, an industry veteran and a former LNG trader, discusses the need for better information in the global gas market, along with broader trends impacting the sector, including the impact of growing U.S. liquefaction capacity, and what to expect in the coming years as Europe continues to displace Russian gas.
NGI's expert markets editor Leticia Gonzales, joined by associate editor Morgan Evans, answers some pressing questions on California's exceptionally high natural gas prices this winter, how they compare to the surrounding regions, and weather- and infrastructure-related elements that have pushed prices upward since the start of the season. Evans also discusses how these prices have caught the interest of regulators and California's consumers, and what utilities are doing to help ease the financi...
NGI senior editors Andrew Baker and Kevin Dobbs discuss the outlook for North American natural gas prices in 2023. They address factors including a mild weather start to the year, robust U.S. production, the Freeport LNG outage and the potential for future increases in export capacity. Baker and Dobbs also delve into how Canada and Mexico fit into the North American supply and demand picture – from how pipeline constraints in the United States impact Canadian natural gas prices to the prospects ...
Senior LNG Editor Jamison Cocklin and Associate LNG Editor Jacob Dick discuss the downward trend of European and Asian natural gas during the start of the year. They also talk about the implications of mild winter weather, strong gas storage levels and low prices on global LNG markets, including U.S. terminal contracting.
What will be the main themes in energy in Latin America in 2023? NGI Latin America editor Christopher Lenton chats to Rice University's Francisco Monaldi about the major natural gas and oil themes from Mexico down to Argentina, in a world upended by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Will Latin America export more LNG? Will it provide more oil barrels to the global market to replace Russian deliveries? Listen in to find out what to expect in Latin America energy in 2023.
In the past two weeks, seven power stations have been hit by attacks. The Department of Homeland Security is considering domestic terrorist attacks intended to disrupt U.S. energy infrastructure. NGI's Senior Energy Analyst Shaylon Stolk discusses what the attacks on utilities in Washington, Oregon, and North Carolina might mean for the energy market and the natural gas industry in the political context of U.S. cooperation with Europe to address their natural gas shortages.
The United States has already taken a $29 billion hit from extreme weather events this year. With unusual weather becoming the new normal, building energy infrastructure that can survive the onslaught has become a major priority. NGI's Senior Energy Analyst, Shaylon Stolk, discusses how utilities are trying to balance the urgent need for new energy infrastructure to meet increasing demands and the long-term necessity of heavily weatherized natural gas and power grids that can adapt to the changi...
The world can't get U.S. LNG fast enough, but several major potential onshore U.S. liquefaction projects are saying not so fast, and are pushing out their potential FID dates. We believe there are a number of factors behind this, including the potential rise of Fast LNG.
The Haynesville and Marcellus are like the Tale of Two Cities in terms of building natural gas takeaway capacity, and new pipeline projects are being planned to accommodate rapid growth from the Haynesville. Most of that new capacity will serve LNG exports, and most of it will route through Gillis, Louisiana. But just how liquid a trading hub might Gillis become?
As winter approaches, countries throughout Europe are struggling to fill the gap in energy supply left by Russian gas. NGI Associate Editor Jacob Dick and Sr. Energy Analyst Shaylon Stolk discuss how the post-Brexit European Union is building international alliances to meet its energy needs, and how existing political tensions within the UK might be exacerbated by the energy shortage.
Waha gas typically trades at a large basis discount to the Henry Hub, and at times, prices in the Permian have been negative. Most of the industry focus is on increasing takeaway capacity to the Gulf Coast region, but what about west toward California and south to Mexico? We discuss several developments that could help increase the flow of Permian gas in those directions.
The pace of U.S. natural gas production has increased in recent months, but will the momentum continue into 2023, especially considering the potential for a U.S. recession? Longer-term, drilling inventory is the lifeblood of producers, and a growing area of concern among investors. How those shape up in the years ahead will have a major impact on future gas prices.
NGI LNG editors Jamison Cocklin and Jacob Dick walk listeners through the latest on the Freeport LNG outage. They discuss when the terminal on the Upper Texas Coast is likely to restart operations after a June explosion knocked the LNG export facility offline, the findings of a root cause failure analysis and implications for other U.S. terminals, among other things.
The US coal fleet has been rapidly retiring in the past decade in favor of natural gas and shows no signs of making a comeback. NGI's Senior Energy Analyst Shaylon Stolk discusses what Europe's 2022 energy crisis can teach us about the post-coal power market and what this could mean for the future of natural gas.
NGI Latin America editor Christoper Lenton sits down with Mexico energy expert Rosanety Barrios to talk about Mexico's natural gas market in light of global turmoil after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They talk about how Mexico is now competing for natural gas with LNG export to Europe and Asia, the perils of energy security in the new world order, and how Mexico needs to adapt – from releasing pipeline capacity to opening more exploration rounds, from rewriting policy to progressing key infrast...
In recent years, extreme and unusual winter weather has sent the natural gas and electricity markets into chaos, turning the Polar Vortex into an energy market boogeyman. NGI’s Senior Energy Analyst Shaylon Stolk goes back to her academic roots in climate modeling to discuss how the Polar Vortex works, how much we can predict, and how an extreme winter storm might affect this winter's natural gas marketplace.
Spark Commodities CEO Tim Mendelssohn joins NGI’s Jamison Cocklin, editor of LNG Insight, to discuss the growing gap between the price of LNG landing in Europe and pipeline hubs on the continent like the Title Transfer Facility. The conversation also touches on proposals from European governments to develop a liquefied natural gas index and other factors currently driving the global gas market, such as record-high freight rates.
Please join Patrick Rau, NGI’s Director of Strategy and Research, for the final of NGI’s three-part series on how the market analyzes and anticipates Henry Hub natural gas prices. We conclude this series by discussing signals that may yield clues to potential future price direction and volatility.
Some call technical analysis "voodoo magic," and the subject has been scorned by many market fundamentalists. Nonetheless, Natural Gas Intelligence believes there is ample evidence to suggest that technical analysis is not only used by Henry Hub futures traders, but that it can also impact natural gas prices. Join Patrick Rau, NGI’s Director of Strategy and Research, in this podcast series to learn more about some of the more popular technical tools to analyze and forecast Henry Hub natural gas ...
Trying to understand where the price of natural gas at the Henry Hub is headed? We at Natural Gas Intelligence have covered the North American natural gas market since the early 1980s, and have learned a thing or two about how the market analyzes and forecasts Henry Hub prices. While this discussion is not a price forecast on our part, we believe it can help you better frame your approach going forward. Join Patrick Rau, NGI’s Director of Strategy and Research, on episode 83 of NGI’s Hub & F...
Will natural gas have a place at the energy matrix table for the next century? Episode 82 of NGI’s Hub & Flow podcast features NGI Senior Markets Editor Kevin Dobbs interviewing Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright, who is bullish on natural gas demand for many years to come. Against that backdrop, Wright shares why he thinks robust natural gas demand will endure and why the “energy transition,” in his view, is not really a transition at all – but rather a gradual shift to more varied sources of ...
Pressure from regulators and investors has the natural gas industry scrambling to meet new environmental standards and net-zero emissions goals. Many new technologies and services are claiming to help, but do they work? NGI’s Senior Energy Analyst Shaylon Stolk dives into which decarbonization methods being marketed to the natural gas industry might provide surprise economic benefits, and which ones are just hot air.
