Updated Sep 25, 2024
9/25/24
By Chris Newman
onOctober Nymex natural gas futures fluctuated between gains and losses Tuesday before turning lower as profit taking, hurricane risks and middling demand choked off some of the rocket fuel powering the previous three days’ nearly 33.0-cent run higher.
Chris Newman joined NGI in October 2023. He worked 18 years at Argus Media, starting in 2004 in Washington, D.C., where he covered U.S. thermal/coking coal markets and rail transportation. In 2014, he moved to Singapore to help lead Argus’ coverage of steel and its raw material feedstocks. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Chris returned to his native Virginia in 2021.
Nearly a dozen market participants announced a series of deals at Gastech 2024 in Houston last week, landing more than 5 million metric tons/year (mmty) of global LNG export and import capacity as supplies are forecast to grow through the end of the decade.
The October natural gas futures contract flew higher on Monday, building on the prior week’s rally and remaining comfortably above a key technical threshold. It settled at $2.613/MMBtu, up 17.9 cents day/day. This followed back-to-back gains to close out last week.
The soon-to-expire October Nymex natural gas futures contract reversed overnight gains, ticking a few cents lower early Tuesday on the heels of an impressive 17.9-cent advance Monday. Gains were motivated by the uncertain impact of a large storm system in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and a tight market balance.
Prompt month natural gas futures marched higher Monday as risks to supply from a developing Gulf Coast storm added to pipeline issues and bullish weather revisions in tightening up market balances.
European natural gas prices moved higher on Monday as tensions rose in the Middle East and Ukraine.
Petrochemical giant Dow Inc. said lower North American natural gas prices are driving an expansion of operations. Meanwhile in Europe, “right-sizing” the footprint “is necessary” with industrial demand still 25% off pre-pandemic levels.
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