Tag Archives: Natural Gas

WTI crude oil hit fresh weekly highs in the $107.00s on Friday and is eyeing last week’s highs above $109.00. tensions over Russia’s gas supplies to EU and the growing risk of an EU embargo on Russian oil imports has supported prices this week.China demand concerns as the country continues …

Germany has dropped its opposition to an embargo on Russian oil imports, government officials reportedly said according to the WSJ. According to the WSJ, this “clears the way” for a wider EU ban on oil imports from Russia, given that Berlin had been one of the main opponents on an …

Although natural gas heavy truck sales are up 21% year-to-date, there is a continued decline of total natural gas fueling stations. For the first two months of 2022, US and Canadian Class 8 natural gas truck retail sales rose 21% year-to-date against comparisons of the same time in 2021, according …

Piper Sandler commodity analysts updated the bank’s US natural gas forecast Thursday, flagging increased exports, increased demand and “pervasive capital discipline” all leading to higher medium-term natural gas prices (UNG).Analysts now see Henry Hub (NG1:COM) averaging $6.50 in 2022, $5.50 in 2023 and $4.00 long-term; compared to prior estimates of …

Germany’s exports to Russia fell 57.5 percent to 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in March due to sanctions imposed on Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine, the German Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday. This pushed Russia down from the fifth largest market for Germany outside the European Union in …

The prices of US natural gas contracts rose to their highest level in nearly 14 years when settling Monday’s trading, in conjunction with a drop in temperatures in the United States and the continued weakness of global supplies due to the Russian-Ukrainian war. Expectations have increased about the high demand …

US stocks ended little changed in remarkably thin trading Monday and Treasuries ticked lower at the long-end of the curve as investors focused on corporate results and prospects for faster policy tightening by the US central bank.The S&P 500 closed down less than 0.1%, after swinging between narrow gains and …

The euro plunged to a two-year low against the dollar on Thursday, as comments by European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde were taken as a sign that the bank will not be in a rush to raise interest rates. The euro fell to $1.0758, its lowest since April 2020. Lagarde …

US natural gas inventories recorded reading in line with market expectations this week, as natural gas inventories rose by 15 billion cubic meters during the week ending last Friday. This reading is in line with market expectations. This reading is worse than the previous reading, which showed a decrease in …

German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said that Germany is doing all it can to wean itself off Russian energy, but declined to endorse a claim by Boris Johnson that it would stop importing Russian gas by the middle of 2024.Scholz said only that the goal would be achieved very soon, and …