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NG/LNG - This Week's Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 9.20.26
Source: EIA This Week's Main Drivers: EIA storage increased +44 BCF well below last year's +87 BCF and the five-year average of +74 BCF—another materially bullish storage signal. Yet natural gas remains unable to break and hold above $3/MMBtu. LNG operations remain a key variable. Cameron LNG lost one train mid-week, while Golden Pass Train 1 continues its slow ramp, now around 62%. Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz remains severely restricted, with LNG flows still disrupted. A

Timothy Beggans
Sep 202 min read


NG/LNG - This Week's Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 9.6.26
Source: EIA This Week’s Main Drivers: The EIA reported a +30 BCF storage injection—right on expectations, but bullish versus +50 BCF last year and the +37 BCF five-year average. The storage surplus to the five-year average continues to narrow. Tropical Storm Edouard delivered heavy rain across East Texas, but had little apparent impact on LNG exports. Meanwhile, low Texas wind generation and weaker solar output increased gas-fired power demand, while the South Central salt-st

Timothy Beggans
Sep 62 min read


China Is Walking Away From Spot LNG — Is This a Structural Shift?
Source: CGTN Frontline (China) China’s LNG appetite is changing—and the implications for global gas markets could be significant. China’s 2026 LNG imports are tracking toward 61–64 million tonnes, down from 68.4 million tonnes in 2025. That would mark a second consecutive annual decline. The IEA estimates Chinese gas demand fell 4% YoY from March–June, while LNG imports dropped roughly 12%. This looks increasingly structural. High LNG prices and the Iran/Hormuz disruption exp

Timothy Beggans
Aug 292 min read


NG/LNG - This Week's Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 8.16.26
Source: EIA This Week’s Main Drivers: The U.S. natural gas market continues to balance strong summer demand against growing winter uncertainty. EIA storage increased 36 Bcf, slightly above the 32 Bcf expectation, compared with 49 Bcf last year and the 33 Bcf five-year average. The injection keeps storage fundamentals relatively comfortable, but the weather outlook is becoming more complicated. Strait of Hormuz traffic has fallen to a three-month low, keeping global energy sec

Timothy Beggans
Aug 162 min read


NG/LNG - This Week's Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 8.9.26
Source: EIA The natural gas market continues to balance late-summer weather, growing LNG demand, and persistent geopolitical uncertainty. While cooler temperatures are beginning to reduce U.S. cooling demand in some regions, the global LNG market remains tightly focused on supply security heading into winter. This Week's Main Drivers: The EIA reported a +33 Bcf natural gas storage injection this week—bearish versus last year's +13 Bcf build and the 5-year average of +23 Bcf.

Timothy Beggans
Aug 92 min read


Will Summer Doldrums Lead to Winter Volatility?
Source: WXCharts.com Natural gas markets have become increasingly comfortable with lower prices. Storage injections remain healthy, summer demand is beginning to ease, and many traders have embraced the bearish narrative. But when everyone is on the same side of the trade, it often pays to ask: what could change? Several developing trends suggest today's complacency could give way to a much different winter. Meteorologists continue to monitor the evolution of a potential Supe

Timothy Beggans
Aug 82 min read


America's Energy Miracle: How Shale, LNG & AI Are Powering the Next American Century
Source: EIA Less than two decades ago, the U.S. was preparing for a future of growing natural gas imports. Today, America is the world's largest LNG exporter—a transformation driven by the shale revolution and innovations in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. The impact extends far beyond energy. Abundant, affordable natural gas has lowered electricity costs, attracted manufacturing investment, strengthened our trade balance, and created hundreds of thousands of hi

Timothy Beggans
Jul 41 min read


NG/LNG - This Week’s Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 5.17.26
Source: IEEFA This Week’s Main Drivers Natural gas markets continued grinding higher this week as improving LNG demand, lower U.S. production, and growing global weather risks helped offset still-comfortable storage levels. The EIA storage report came in at +85 BCF, directly in line with expectations. While neutral versus the five-year average of +84 BCF, the build was notably tighter than last year’s +109 BCF injection, reinforcing the idea that the market is gradually tight

Timothy Beggans
May 172 min read


NGSA’s 2026 Summer Outlook Signals a Structural Bull Market for U.S. Natural Gas
Source: NGSA The Natural Gas Supply Association’s 2026 Summer Outlook highlights a major transformation underway in the U.S. natural gas market. What once was primarily a weather-driven market is increasingly becoming a structurally demand-driven market powered by LNG exports, record electricity consumption, industrial expansion, and the rapid growth of AI infrastructure. NGSA forecasts total U.S. natural gas demand this summer to average nearly 109 Bcf/d, representing a year

Timothy Beggans
May 162 min read


NG/LNG – This Week’s Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 05.03.2026
Source: NOAA/Climate Prediction Center This Week Natural gas markets remained volatile, driven by a mix of bearish storage data and supportive demand signals. EIA Storage Report: The latest build came in near expectations at +79 Bcf, following the prior week’s +103 Bcf injection, reinforcing a loose supply backdrop with inventories now well above the five-year average. Storage Surplus: Total inventories have expanded to ~2.1 Tcf, maintaining a meaningful cushion heading into

Timothy Beggans
May 32 min read


Orbiting Power: The Next Frontier for Solving AI’s Energy Constraint
Source: NASA ( https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/otps-sbsp-report-final-tagged-approved-1-8-24-tagged-v2.pdf ) The AI revolution is colliding with a hard physical limit: energy. Data centers—the backbone of AI—are rapidly becoming one of the largest and fastest-growing sources of electricity demand. Already consuming ~1.5% of global power, that figure is accelerating as hyperscale compute expands into multi-gigawatt clusters. In markets like Texas, grid operator

Timothy Beggans
Apr 112 min read


The AI Grid Shock: Why Data Centers Are Supercharging Power Demand in ERCOT and PJM
Source: SuperMicro Artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and hyperscale data centers are rapidly reshaping electricity demand across the United States. After nearly two decades of relatively flat power consumption, the grid is entering a new era of sustained load growth—and the epicenter of that surge is concentrated in two regions: ERCOT and PJM. Recent forecasts from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) show U.S. electricity demand rising steadily through 20

Timothy Beggans
Mar 142 min read


Storage Economics: Why the April–January Gas Spread Is Flashing Bullish
Source: SuperGrok The natural gas April–January spread has widened to roughly $1.80 — and that move is speaking loudly. At current levels, the spread is brushing up against — and in some cases exceeding — implied underground storage costs along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Base rates have climbed into the $0.25–$0.35 per Dth per month range, with many contracts now clearing in the low $0.30s. Rising labor and material costs, combined with limited new build capacity, are structurally

Timothy Beggans
Feb 152 min read


Powering the AI Era with Clean Firm Energy: Google’s CCS Deal Signals a New Frontier
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/52639793897/ Google’s recent agreement to purchase power from the Broadwing Energy project in Decatur, Illinois—a 400 MW natural gas-fired plant with carbon capture and storage (CCS)—marks a pioneering step in sustainable energy for AI. Unlike traditional wind or solar PPAs, this deal leverages CCS to capture ~90% of CO₂ emissions, storing them underground, ensuring firm, dispatchable clean power for Google’s 24/7 data cente

Timothy Beggans
Oct 28, 20252 min read


AI is Moving to the Laptop—What Does It Mean for Power Demand?
Source: ChatGPT On August 5, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-OSS, its first open-weight models since GPT-2: 🔹 gpt-oss-20b – Runs efficiently...

Timothy Beggans
Aug 7, 20251 min read


Natural Gas: Outlook for the Rest of 2025
Source: Google Maps As we enter late 2025, the natural gas market stands at a critical juncture, shaped by global demand shifts, policy...

Timothy Beggans
Aug 5, 20252 min read


Powering the Future: FERMI America and Texas Tech’s HyperGrid™ AI + Energy Campus
Source: FERMI America In a landmark partnership, FERMI America, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and the Texas Tech...

Timothy Beggans
Jul 10, 20251 min read


How "Sleep-Time Compute" Could Quietly Transform AI and Global Power Demand
Source: GROK AI isn't just "thinking" faster — it’s learning to think smarter during its downtime. A new study from Letta and UC...

Timothy Beggans
Apr 29, 20251 min read


How Cisco and NVIDIA Are Reshaping AI Infrastructure—and What It Means for Energy
Source: NVIDIA AI is only as powerful as the infrastructure behind it. That’s why the expanded partnership between Cisco and NVIDIA is...

Timothy Beggans
Apr 22, 20251 min read


Behind the Meter Generation: How Natural Gas Fuels AI Growth Until Nuclear Scales Up
Source: GROK The explosion of AI and cloud computing has created an unprecedented demand for reliable, low-cost power. Data centers—the...

Timothy Beggans
Feb 17, 20251 min read
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