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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Natural Gas: Summer 2005. Steve Harvey FERC July 25, 2005. Gas prices for the past year (Daily NYMEX prices for the prompt month). Price ($/MMBtu). Gas prices for the last year have remained near recent highs. Henry Hub Price ($/MMBtu).
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Natural Gas: Summer 2005 Steve Harvey FERC July 25, 2005
Gas prices for the past year(Daily NYMEX prices for the prompt month) Price ($/MMBtu)
Gas prices for the last year have remained near recent highs Henry Hub Price ($/MMBtu)
Gas prices are not related to storage inventory levels alone
Gas prices do appear related to oil and storage inventories 1999-2003 2004 2005
$8.50 $8.30 $8.10 EIA Report Issued $7.90 $7.70 $7.50 Price ($ /MMBtu) $7.30 $7.10 $6.90 $6.70 $6.50 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 12:00 12:30 13:00 13:30 14:00 Financial trading prices appear to be driving physical prices at times NYMEX Settlement for December = $7.976 Monthly Index for December = $7.78
Hard to measure the extent of financial trading Open Interest (thousand contracts)