Monday, February 24th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract open at $3.930, down $0.304 compared to Friday’s closing price of $4.234. Trading sideways through the morning as forecasts shed some valuable HDD’s for the week to come, the contract marked the intraday low of $3.926 at 11:05AM. Posting a meager ascent to the intraday high of $4.024 nearly two hours later, March closed lower on Monday at $3.994.
The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published last Thursday posted a 196 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended February 14 – in line with the market estimate of a 191 BCF withdrawal. Total working gas in storage was reported as 2,101 BCF; 15.5% below this time last year and 5.3% below the five-year average.
As of 7:20AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $0.190; Natural Gas was up $0.032; Heating Oil was up $0.001; and Gasoline was up $0.006.
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