Sentences with phrase «times natural gas prices»

Historically oil prices have traded at 6 to 12 times natural gas prices.

Not exact matches

DENVER — Western Colorado has 40 times more natural gas than previously thought, but an immediate boom is unlikely because of low gas prices, government and industry experts said Wednesday.

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.

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.

At the same time, the price of its main feedstock, natural gas, has remained very low in North America.

At the same time, British Columbia's plans to ship liquefied natural gas to Asian markets are being scuttled as LNG prices come off their highs.

And at the same time, he said he's going to increase hydraulic fracturing, which is the main reason that prices have gone down for natural gas and that's what put coal miners out of work,» Sandalow said.

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.

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.

Historically, the price of natural gas has spiked tremendously at times, but in absolute terms, the price is barely above its 1990 level, as shown in the natural gas price chart below:

Coal had made me money but companies in the industry had fallen on hard times due to low natural gas prices and environmental regulations.

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.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

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.

This is the first time I've covered Natural Gas but have found the recent price action very interesting so thought I'd share a few thoughts on it and take a look at whether a rebound is due anytime soon or if the steady 14 month decline it has been in is likely to continue.

Natural - gas prices on Nymex ended lower after the EIA on Thursday reported the first weekly supply increase of the injection season — a time when inventories build ahead of the expected rise in summer cooling demand.

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Those supply issues and a surge in natural gas demand for fueling power plants and vehicles could drive up gas prices over time.

Energy - intensive industries such as chemicals, plastics and steel will have a critical cost advantage, she said, noting that natural gas prices now are roughly five times more expensive in Japan than in the United States, three times more expensive in the European Union, and twice as expensive in China.

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.

In Japan, for example, which relies on imported liquefied natural gas, prices exceeded $ 16 per million British thermal units, six times higher that what U.S. consumers paid.

Now that approval is in place and natural gas prices are lower, Shaw is betting that the technology is ready for the big time — as is rival Unibio.

At the same time, falling natural gas prices — combined with warm temperatures in much of the country — will mean big savings on heating bills.

Official info and pricing on 2015 Civic Hybrid and Natural Gas models was not released at the time of this writing, but we predict no significant changes.

Due to infrastructural complexities and limited arbitrage opportunities, North American natural gas prices should remain depressed for quite some time.

Sometimes the error can huge, as in the case of UNG (the natural gas etf) in which the spot price of natural gas increased many times that of the ETF itself.

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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The arms will have to be torn off to get the utilities to use natural gas when the natural gas price goes back to $ 6 to $ 12 which has been the actual range for some time.

But you can see that if energy prices, especially for natural gas, stay low for a long period of time, we'll be back in a trance and the imperative for other tougher pushes, whether it's a build - out of renewables, as Joe Romm would like, or much more R. and D., as I would like, it's just going to be really hard to sustain that.

When you compare current electricity and natural gas prices, the same unit of energy will cost you about three times more for electricity so you can expect to pay a little bit more on your utility bill, even with a sizable energy efficiency improvement.

In May 2010, American Electric Power announced it planned to run 10 small coal - fired power units on a part - time basis starting in June as «the weak economy reduced demand and low natural gas prices have made the use of some coal units less profitable,» according to the company.

In recent years, Tanzania has discovered natural gas reserves off its southern coast worth roughly 15 times its annual GDP, at least before the recent oil - price slump.

At a time at which U.S. dependence on coal is decreasing (due to increased supplies of unconventional natural gas and hence lower gas prices), China continues to rely on coal, but is very concerned about this, partly because of localized health impacts of particulates and other pollutants.

This investigation into the interplay of business and 1970s oil price and allocation regulation led him to apply for a grant from the Cato Institute to write a history of U.S. oil and natural gas regulation, an anticipated 18 - month project that turned into five years of full - time effort.

The price of natural gas looks good today but who knows what it will be in 10 years time.

In April 2012, the last time monthly natural gas generation came close to surpassing coal - fired generation, spot prices for natural gas were near $ 2 per million Btu ($ / MMBtu) on a monthly average, before returning to about $ 3.50 / MMBtu in the last months of 2012.

I employ a variety of alternative specifications to further explore geographic heterogeneity in causal effects on different generators across the PJM region and interrogate the impact of using price time series from different natural gas trading hubs.

Like ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil shares have underperformed in recent years because of the company's ill - timed $ 41 billion buyout of natural gas producer XTO Energy in 2009 — when natural gas prices were around $ 6 per MMBtu.

As a result of what would ultimately prove to be an ill - timed purchase, ConocoPhillips shares spent years underperforming those of competitors as natural gas production began to climb and depress prices.

By comparison, the contract for the wind - generated electricity started at 24.4 cents per kwh and includes a guaranteed 3.5 % price increase bringing the wind - generated electricity to 47 cents per kwh in twenty years — making the wind - generated electricity roughly 4 - 8 times more expensive than the natural gas - fueled electricity.

Adjusted for inflation, natural gas has not been this cheap for the past 35 years, with the price this year three to five times lower than it was in the mid-2000s.

If price projections for coal, oil, natural gas, wind and solar are approximately correct, the market will make a transition in that time frame following what is disparagingly called «business as usual».

For the first time in history, natural gas is now the leading source of fuel to generate electricity in the U.S., but at what price?

Because utilities respond to price incentives, this caused fuel - switching of baseload electricity production from coal to natural gas, leading to a time in April 2012 when natural gas equaled coal as an energy source for the first time.

The short version is that electricity from new natural gas plants costs about half as much as coal, and that's at gas prices approaching five dollars... two - and - a-half times the current price!

We recognize the extent to which the natural gas revolution and increased flexibility of the electricity sector eased the task of meeting short and medium climate targets, at the same time providing price stability for industry, business, and households.

At the same time, competition from natural gas and stringent environmental rules are pushing coal prices down, making it harder for companies to earn a return on the coal they sell.

Eventually, coal production will rebound somewhat as overall U.S. electricity demand increases over time and as natural gas prices rise.

Additionally, natural gas prices would be 2.3 times higher for the power sector in 2040 than in 2013, and average consumer natural gas prices would nearly double over the same time period.