Sentences with phrase «by natural gas prices»

I think sooner or later this price divergence will have to close, either by natural gas prices rising, oil prices falling or a combination of the two.

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Our energy sector has been hurt partly by low natural gas prices and the discount placed on Canadian oil compared to world benchmarks, but gas and oil prices have generally been flat or on the rise.

Nevertheless, new regulations recently proposed by the Obama administration governing methane gas could hinder a recovery in natural gas production as prices begin to strengthen over the coming months.

So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

An independent panel has endorsed the proposed development of a liquefied natural gas precinct at James Price Point near Broome, but the recommendation may have little impact as project developers led by Woodside Petroleum have shifted their focus to floating LNG developments.

One of his biggest deals — the $ 41 billion buyout of XTO Energy in 2009 — was called by Tillerson himself ill - timed because it was done before natural gas prices bottomed out.

A recent survey by the National Association for Business Economics showed that 18 percent of businesses expect a negative impact from declining oil prices — reflecting the percentage of industries that directly benefit from oil and natural gas sales.

«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..

(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.

Analysts excited about the company's exposure to the rapidly growing natural gas sector were pumping up the stock, ignoring its low and declining return on invested capital (ROIC), significant write - downs indicating poor capital allocation, and the high expectations implied by its stock price.

(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.

The profitability of oil and natural gas development activity depends on both the prices realized by producers and the cost and productivity of newly developed wells.

China's natural gas demand has been boosted by price cuts aimed at switching users from coal to the cleaner - burning fuel, according to one of the country's biggest gas distributors.

UNG's investment objective is for the daily changes in percentage terms of its shares» net asset value to reflect the daily changes in percentage terms of the natural gas price delivered at the Henry Hub, La., as measured by the daily changes in the benchmark futures contract minus expenses.

Energy company Royal Dutch Shell says first - quarter earnings rose 67 percent, boosted by a rebound in oil prices and growth in its natural gas business.

These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

The report also looks at the opportunity for natural gas in transportation, now in its infancy, and notes that never before has oil's dominance in vehicles been challenged by such low gas prices.

Let's start by taking a look at what Natural Gas prices have done over the last few years.

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.

The price tag for a natural - gas project in Australia, called Gorgon and jointly owned by the three companies, has ballooned 45 % to $ 54 billion.

The US glass packaging sector is also being hit by higher natural gas prices and increased soda ash prices.

We suffer a 30 - 40 % energy price disadvantage by not having access to natural gas.

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.

The Kinder Morgan natural gas pipeline project is dead — a victim of low energy prices and a lack of interest by natural gas shippers and buyers.

The protests, which were led by Buddhist monks, were sparked by a 500 per cent increase in the price of natural gas, announced by the government in August last year.

The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers, NUPENG have endorsed the price modulation mechanism adopted by the Federal Government which pegged the pump price for premium motor spirit, popularly known as petrol at N145 per litre.

FitzPatrick struggles to make money because wholesale electric prices in Central New York have been depressed by plentiful natural gas, which fuels many power plants.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Con Edison expects residential winter heating bills to be approximately 10 percent lower than last year due to lower natural gas prices, and reminds customers they can save even more money by using energy wisely and making sure their heating systems work efficiently.

The nuclear industry's decline was hastened by the cheap price of natural gas and costly repairs to aging power plants.

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.

Further, there are hopes for relatively low - cost natural gas to revive U.S. industries — from steel to plastics — that could take advantage of current prices, which by world standards are cheap.

Solar panels could produce electricity at the same price as coal - and natural gas - burning power plants by the end of this decade if countries direct resources at this rapidly advancing corner of the energy industry, according to the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

This boom, driven by low prices for natural gas — the main ingredient in ammonia production — will drive a corresponding surge in the industry's already substantial carbon footprint.

EIA predicts «much brighter prospects» for natural gas supply, keeping prices at about $ 8 per million British thermal units by 2030, compared with the International Energy Agency's outlook, which predicts $ 16 per million Btu by 2030, Gruenspecht said.

The company claims its technology can produce steam at a cost of $ 3 per million BTUs, based on U.S. National Renewable Laboratory calculations; natural gas currently costs some $ 4 per million BTUs, though that price may continue to fall as natural gas freed up by fracking floods the market.

Its U.S. mining operation saw pretax earnings decline by $ 44.3 million «primarily due to a volume reduction of 2.5 million tons largely driven by lower natural gas prices and a longwall move in Colorado,» the company said.

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We believe we have entered a sustained period of elevated crude oil and natural gas prices which we believe is driven in part by increasing demand for industrial fuels.

What is means is that an investor could be right that the price of natural gas is going higher, but wrong on the timing and completely miss out on the rebound as this energy ETF's value is eaten away by rolling costs.

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So even without the most positive of outcomes for my investment thesis, a sale of the company or a significant jump in natural gas prices, the company has been revalued upward by some 42 %.

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The decline of that industry and related employment has been caused by technological changes in mining, and competition from low - priced natural gas for electricity generation, not by environmental regulations.

This puts pressure on the national system of natural gas pricing, and the resulting effect is that power operators in other states seek to avoid paying higher prices by shifting more to coal.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

He added that 2012 emissions cuts could turn out to be temporary — EIA projects energy - related carbon emissions to tick up 2.4 percent this year, driven mainly by coal, Lindstrom explained, since natural gas prices have risen recently.

The pass - through of lower wholesale prices for natural gas into rates paid by retail customers may also be reducing expenditures.

Rising production, record end - of - winter storage inventories, and mild weather contributed to spot natural gas prices nearing their lowest levels in a decade until prices rebounded at most trading points to the high $ 2 / MMBtu range by the end of June.

The analysis comes on the heels of widespread speculation that the reactors will be carefully mothballed by their builder and could eventually be revived by Southern Company or Duke, two neighboring electric utilities, when natural gas prices rise in the future.