Monday, February 10th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $3.398, up $0.089 compared to Friday’s closing price of $3.309. With weather models adding material cold to the short-term forecast, the contract marked an intraday low of $3.353 at 9:45AM before resuming its upward momentum. Finding additional support from increased LNG demand, prices rose to the intraday high of $3.485 at $3.485 at 12:55PM. March closed higher on Monday at $3.444.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published last Thursday posted a 174 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended January 31 – in line with the market estimate of a 179 BCF withdrawal. Total working gas in storage was reported as 2,397 BCF; 8.0% below this time last year and 4.4% below the five-year average.
As of 7:00AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was up $0.870; Natural Gas was up $0.067; Heating Oil was up $0.029; and Gasoline was up $0.025.
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