January NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract Closed at $3.280 on Friday, December 13th

Friday, December 13th saw the front month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $3.382, down $0.073 compared to Thursday’s closing price of $3.455. Marking the intraday high of $3.400 at 9:05AM, prices trended steadily lower throughout the day following the previous session’s historic storage pull. Facing tepid weather forecasts and healthy production, the contract fell to record an intraday low of $3.264 at 1:00PM. January closed lower on Friday at $3.280.

The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published last Thursday showed a 190 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended December 6 – above the market estimate of a 163 BCF injection. Total working gas in storage was reported as 3,747 BCF; 1.8% above this time last year and 4.6% above the five-year average.

As of 7:00AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $0.810; Natural Gas was down $0.125; Heating Oil was down $0.013, and Gasoline was down $0.016.

                                                                                                       
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