Thursday, February 13th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $3.729, up $0.164 compared to Wednesday’s closing price of $3.565. Driven higher overnight by continued frigid forecasts, prices traded along $3.730 through 10:00AM. Jumping to the intraday high of $3.778 as the bullish storage report hit the wire, the contract then withdrew to cross midday at $3.667. Tallying an intraday low of $3.602 at 1:25PM, March closed higher on Thursday at $3.628.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published on Thursday posted a 100 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended February 7 – above the market estimate of a 91 BCF withdrawal. Total working gas in storage was reported as 2,297 BCF; 9.7% below this time last year and 2.8% below the five-year average.
As of 6:50AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up $0.440; Natural Gas was up $0.093; Heating Oil was up $0.019; and Gasoline was up $0.010.
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