Natural gas futures advanced as high as 1.5% on Thursday after the US government reported a
August natural gas futures rose $0.035, or 1.5%, to $2.48 per million British thermal units (btu) at 14:46 GMT on Thursday on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Natural gas is on track for a weekly gain of nearly 9%, lowering its
According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), domestic inventories of natural gas climbed by 81 billion cubic feet for the week ending July 5. The median estimate was 72 billion cubic feet. In total, US supplies stand at 2.471 trillion cubic feet, up 275 billion cubic feet from the same time a year ago. They are also 142 billion below the
On Tuesday, the EIA released its latest forecast for natural gas prices. It projects that prices will average $2.62 per million btu in 2019, down 5.5% from its previous estimate.
In recent weeks, natural gas had been trading in a downward direction because temperatures were average, reducing the demand for air conditioning and adding to stockpiles. However, this month so far, there has been a heat wave that has swept the nation. In the east,
Put simply, millions of households across the US are cranking up the air conditioner. And that is good news for natural gas prices.
In other energy markets, September West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil futures dipped $0.08, or 0.13%, to $60.35 per barrel. October Brent crude futures slipped $0.22, or 0.33%, to $66.79 a barrel. August gasoline futures fell $0.02, or 0.98%, to $1.98 per gallon. August heating oil futures slid $0.0125, or 0.63%, to $1.98 a gallon.
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