Sentences with phrase «with natural gas prices»

Since then, with natural gas prices down, the industry has lost 3,000 jobs.

The «polar vortex» experienced in late 2013 also caused additional problems associated with natural gas prices which spiked as Ontario's storage was depleted and Ontario's and the Eastern US gas generation plants were ramped up just as demand for heating fuel was high.

With natural gas prices so low, producers are cutting back severely on drilling.

Recently, with natural gas prices declining and coal prices rising, dispatching natural gas generators in some parts of the country has become increasingly competitive with running coal generators.

Compton, after all, is primarily in the Gas exploration and production business, and we all know what a terrible business that is today with natural gas prices at historic lows.

Not exact matches

In its early days, when natural gas prices rose and fell in lockstep with oil, investors questioned its business plan.

Falling within his portfolio are the company's Canadian operations, including the Athabasca oilsands project and its growing interests in liquefied natural gas (LNG), including a proposed export terminal in Kitimat, B.C., with a rumoured price tag of more than $ 12 billion.

Low natural gas prices, combined with changes in the provincial tax regime, probably deserve as much credit as the worldwide economic downturn for the carnage that has subsequently ensued, with at least 40 B.C. resort and condo developments in creditor protection or receivership, according to Jurock.

Right now, liquefied natural gas exported from Louisiana can't compete with Russia on price, but that could change if the sanctions threat makes it too risky to ship Russian product.

A product of the largest private equity deal ever, Energy Future (formerly TXU) is heavy with debt and struggling to compete, since the boom in natural gas production has put a lid on electricity prices.

The Futures Now team discusses natural gas prices with Jim Iuorio, TJM Institutional Services Managing Director, and Jeff Kilburg, Founder & CEO at KKM Financial.

The «Futures Now» team discusses the surge in natural gas prices, with Jim Iuorio, TJM Institutional Services, and Jeff Kilburg, KKM Financial.

They should instead re-examine their practices that might have led to traces of, for example, diesel turning up in the Wyoming groundwater and come up with standards that would make leaks along the well bore impossible before less appropriate and more costly rules are thrust upon them at a time when natural gas prices are hitting 10 - year lows.

If contract talks with teachers and health workers get hot in the next couple of years, blame natural gas prices.

Today's high prices for gas in Asia, for example, owe a lot to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, which saw nuclear power substituted with natural gas in Japan — and was completely unpredictable.

Those fuel - price economics make sense not just for EnCana, which has converted 163 of its 1,700 vehicles and 15 of its drilling rigs to natural gas, but for larger fleet operators with no special interest in promoting gas.

As a result of Kleenheat's input, the plant now utilises a butane and air mixture to provide SNG which matches the burning requirements of natural gas equipment and provides Nestlé with a competitively - priced energy supply.

On the shale revolution, the report concedes that energy prices for U.S. businesses might well rise if Washington decides to lift an old prohibition to export natural gas to countries who haven't signed a free trade agreement with the U.S. (which includes Japan and China, among America's best potential customers.)

With the oil and natural gas markets stabilized, at least for now, investors should begin considering which companies could emerge from the rubble of the oil price collapse to see their stock prices double or triple in the next few years.

(3) regulatory policy to keep the prices charged by natural monopolies such a railroads, power and gas companies in line with actual production costs plus normal profit.

Natural gas is still so cheap that solar has trouble competing with existing plants, but when it comes to new gas plants, solar is getting within striking distance, especially if gas prices rise more than forecasted.

«We believe we can compete at scale on price with even low - cost natural gas,» Kirtley declares.

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

(Reuters)- U.S. power producer Calpine Corp CPN.N said it would sell itself to a group of investors led by Energy Capital Partners for $ 5.6 billion, as the debt - laden company struggles with depressed natural gas prices.

Admittedly we are a net importer of oil (increasingly so as Bass Strait reserves diminish), but Australian entities make large exports of natural gas and thermal coal, whose prices are highly correlated with oil prices over time.

Results from the first round results of Alberta's Renewable Electricity Program were record - breaking, with the lowest wind power prices in Canadian history, making them competitive with natural gas power prices.

If the heat wave does in fact break and injections begin to increase more in line with the historical weekly builds the large overhang of natural gas in inventory that has been limiting any significant rally in natural gas prices this summer could possibly then turn into a deeper bout of selling.

However, oil prices have been dropping like hot potatoes, almost 30 %, and with that energy stocks are tanking in unison and singing songs with same tune, along with drilling and exploration companies for shale oil or natural gas.

However, coal demand can continue to decline if natural gas prices stay low for a very long time allowing further replacement of coal - fired power plants with gas - fired ones.

Natural gas prices are likely to stay low for at least the next 20 years, with a long term annual average price of $ 4 to $ 5 per million Btu, a new study says.

However, its stock price, even with its recent rebound, is down about 50 % since last summer, reflecting the fact that both the spot and futures markets for natural gas still show sharp declines on a year - over-year basis.

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.

As we discussed last week with Paul Murphy, CEO of energy lending specialist Cadence Bancorp (NASDAQ: CADE), prices for natural gas are unlikely to see great upward volatility any time soon.

Well we have already spoken about the massive divergence in natural gas prices when compared with oil.

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.

Best of all, with Kinder Morgan predominantly working with fixed - fee contracts, it avoids a lot of exposure to wholesale natural gas pricing.

With natural gas supplies predicted to run down over the next 25 to 50 years1, N fertiliser prices will continue to rise, reflecting rises in gas prices.

The plant, based in Scriba, Oswego County, is being closed due to greatly reduced revenues and low natural gas prices, along with high operational costs.

FitzPatrick has been hurt by Central New York's low wholesale power prices, which have fallen along with the price of natural gas, a common fuel for power plants.

Eventually the flood of natural gas will come to a halt and prices for electricity with once again rise.

Mohl said increasing operational costs combined with low natural gas prices have cut into revenues and that Entergy was facing a hard choice on the plant even before negotiations began with the state.

And with sufficiently high prices, it has plenty of petroleum and natural gas.

Russian oil companies have benefited greatly from rising international oil prices and the country has also succeeded in signing lucrative natural gas energy supply deals with European countries.

He wishes the plan came along two years ago, when Upstate nuclear plants started struggling to compete with low - price power from natural gas plants.

Without that added compensation, many nukes have trouble competing with gas - fired power plants, which benefit from low natural gas prices.

Moreover, if natural gas prices remain low due to higher yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.

Adding a price on carbon emissions at even a «modest» level of $ 25 per ton would make new nuclear energy competitive with coal and natural gas even if the risk premium remains, the MIT study concludes.

EPRI assumes an escalating price for natural gas — even with new deliveries from shale gas and other unconventional sources, James said.

Walker said he would emphasize that pipeline with Obama, as well as the state's need to extract natural gas resources and address financial challenges caused by low oil prices.

The biggest driver of lower carbon dioxide emissions has been declining natural gas prices, which has allowed the industry to replace coal - fired power plants economically with cleaner natural gas power plants — and without a costly regulatory mandate,» said Jeffrey J. Anderson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy.