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Here are some selected news articles from the week ended 17 July 2021. Part 2 is available here.
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Natural gas rigs at 15 mo high as prices hit 30 mo high; global oil shortage at 830,000 bpd; DUC backlog at 7.6 months
Natural gas prices ended the week unchanged as strong export demand offset cooler weather and a bearish storage report..after slipping 0.7% to $3.674 per mmBTU last week as weather forecasts moderated over the major gas consuming regions, the contract price of natural gas for August delivery jumped 7.5 cents, or more than 2%,
July 12, 2021
Long and essential report in Bloomberg, excerpted here.
Interviews with energy executives and an analysis of public records by Bloomberg News show that natural gas producers in the Permian shale basin began to drastically reduce output days before power companies cut them off. As the flow of gas cratered, everyone scrambled to secure enough supply, sparking one of the wildest price surges in history. Power producers were forced to pay top dollar in the spot market for whatever gas they could find. Soon customers will be saddled with the bill.
And it’s a big one: The total comes to about $11.1 billion for a storm that lasted for just five days, according to estimates by BloombergNEF analysts Jade Patterson and Nakul Nair. The cost of gas for power generation alone was about $8.1 billion, or 75 times normal levels. A further $3 billion was spent by utilities providing gas for cooking, heating and fireplaces. The BNEF estimate is based on spot prices at major hubs as
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Gas Sellers Reaped $11 Billion Windfall During Texas Freeze Source: By Kevin Crowley, Bloomberg • Posted: Sunday, July 11, 2021
The official autopsy of the great Texas winter blackout of February 2021 quickly established a clear timeline of events: Electric utilities cut off power to customers and distributors as well as natural gas producers, which in turn triggered a negative feedback loop that sunk the state deeper and deeper into frigid darkness.
It’s now becoming clear that while millions of Texans endured days of power cuts, the state’s gas producers contributed to fuel shortages, allowing pipelines and traders to profit handsomely off them.