Sentences with phrase «while natural gas prices»

While natural gas prices are low now, they are historically volatile with wide price swings tied to increasing demand, extreme weather events, and uncertainties about available gas supplies.

U.S. coal eventually headed overseas While natural gas prices are currently hovering around $ 2 per million British thermal units, EIA projects that prices will gradually rise to a long - term average of around $ 6 per million Btu.

Not exact matches

«While asset monetizations enhance our liquidity, sales of producing natural gas and oil properties adversely affect the amount of cash flow we generate and reduce the amount and value of collateral available to secure our obligations, both of which are exacerbated by low natural gas prices..

All the while, the industry thrived financially under a combination of high oil prices, low natural gas prices (a major input cost), recession - induced relief from cost inflation and a reduced cost of capital as majors and foreign national oil companies gobbled up wobbly juniors.

The Liwan story is particularly compelling, as Husky has locked in forward contracts to sell gas at prices ranging from US$ 11 to US$ 13, while North American natural gas prices continue to slump in the $ 3 — $ 4 range.

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

Food prices decreased 0.2 % (+1.0 % y / y) while services prices also were up 0.2 % (1.8 % y / y), including the natural gas item.

While projections for higher natural gas prices are expected to reduce gas» share in the generation mix, the subsequent increase in cash flow to gas producers is seen boosting gas Continue Reading

While Devon's reaction to the 2011 say - on - pay provides positive evidence that boards can and do respond effectively to a negative vote, its failure to alter its pay programs prior to that point as natural gas prices sank suggests that owners of companies whose fortunes are closely tied to commodity prices should be wary of lax compensation structures.

The difference, however, is that while foreign companies mostly sold oil assets, they mainly purchased natural gas assets as an adjustment strategy to cope with the anticipated decline in oil prices and even the global oil industry.

While natural gas is cleaner than coal, the volatility of the price of that fuel makes it risky for consumers, said Thibault.

While some increases in the price of gas are to be expected following a natural disaster, the Office of the Attorney General will not tolerate excessive price increases for consumers farthest far exceeds the increase in cost to companies.

While environmental advocacy organizations have taken credit for prompting these changes at some of the world's top banks, the shift coincides with crashing commodity prices in oil, coal and natural gas markets worldwide.

While the share prices certainly rise and fall (as do all stocks), oil and natural gas entities have proven themselves to be very secure.

The average natural gas cost to households will increase $ 5 per month, while the price of gasoline will go up about $ 4.3 cents per litre — or about $ 8 per month.

I like its strategy of trying to pick up mature natural gas properties on the cheap, while natural gas futures prices are low.

Another notable finding is the influence of a big switch from coal to natural gas for electricity generation, as gas prices fell nearly 50 percent while coal prices rose 6.8 percent relative to 2008.

While it's a possibility, such an outlook totally ignores the economic feedbacks like the run - up in oil and natural gas prices.

While there are significant differences in projected natural gas prices across baselines, with persistently lower prices in the High Oil and Gas Resource case, the Clean Power plan itself does not significantly move natural gas prices with the exception of an initial impact expected during the first 2 - 3 years after the start of implementatigas prices across baselines, with persistently lower prices in the High Oil and Gas Resource case, the Clean Power plan itself does not significantly move natural gas prices with the exception of an initial impact expected during the first 2 - 3 years after the start of implementatiGas Resource case, the Clean Power plan itself does not significantly move natural gas prices with the exception of an initial impact expected during the first 2 - 3 years after the start of implementatigas prices with the exception of an initial impact expected during the first 2 - 3 years after the start of implementation.

The price of natural gas plunged some 70 percent while the cost to generate electricity from natural gas declined about 40 percent.

New England's lack of natural gas is pushing power prices higher, but now National Grid has joined with Spectra and Eversource on a new project expected to provide both economic and environmental benefits while keeping rates down.

Coal producers are hoping that all of that adds up to a rise in natural gas prices, which could buy coal - fired power plants just a little while longer.

While the price of residential electricity in the United States has increased only 30 percent since 1995, the price of natural gas has more than tripled due to rising demand and production costs.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

One hypothesis might be that while electricity from solar and wind became cheaper, other energy sources like coal, nuclear, and natural gas became more expensive, eliminating any savings, and raising the overall price of electricity.

While the war on coal in the United States has taken its toll, with the closure of over 250 coal - fired power plants, and a resulting increase in what people pay for their electricity, the price of natural gas will likely rise to where coal will be competitive.

While natural gas is just over 5 per cent lower than wind costs, wind energy doesn't face the commodity price and carbon risks that will nudge natural gas costs higher in the future.

«While two years of crashing prices for oil, natural gas, and coal triggered dramatic downsizing in those industries, renewables have been thriving.

While there is widespread agreement that the physical market factors of supply and demand are primary contributors to natural gas prices and volatility, there also is growing interest and concern about the influence financial market factors, particularly commodity speculation, have on natural gas prices and volatility.

«While some of the billions of cubic feet of natural gas planned for export from the United States will certainly be used in generating electricity in CFE's Mexico facilities, much of that natural gas appears to be subject to temporary storage, and redirection into Pemex liquefaction LNG facilities for export to higher - priced markets in Asia / Oceania,» the document continues.

Similarly, the National Association of Manufacturers estimated that high recovery of shale gas and lower natural gas prices will help U.S. manufacturers employ 1,000,000 workers by 2025 while lower feedstock and energy costs could help them reduce natural gas expenditures by as much as 11.6 billion by 2025.

While the start of the Great Recession had something to do with it, new analysis from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences shows that, when it comes to reductions in emissions from electricity production, which dropped 8.76 % from 2008, cheaper natural gas prices were behind the decline, with natural gas displacing coal.

It is especially unfortunate that the Obama administration is taking this step as we approach the 5th anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon tragedy this spring, particularly while oil prices have plummeted and the cost of natural gas is at historic rock bottom.

While nuclear, imported hydropower and renewables made up more than half of the state's generation output in 2015, regulators are concerned low - priced natural gas generation would replace retiring nuclear plants in electricity markets, raising emissions and putting the goal in doubt.

And while rising natural gas prices allowed coal generation to slightly increase its share of the power mix in the past two years, according to the report, the overall trend points toward coal's continued decline in the U.S.

From The Daily Caller: «New York State is certainly not alone in grappling with how to keep nuclear facilities afloat while cheap natural gas is pushing down electricity prices...

Other states that will be hit, but to a lesser extent, are North Dakota, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and, if oil prices remain depressed for a while, West Virginia (because of the price substitution effect between natural gas and coal).