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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
15 hours ago2 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
2 days ago2 min read


NG/LNG – This Week’s Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 05.10.2026
Source: EIA This Week Global LNG markets remained highly geopolitical this week as traders assessed whether the Iran conflict has truly ended — and who ultimately controls regional security going forward. The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz became a central focus, with ADNOC successfully moving a second LNG tanker through the corridor, helping calm immediate supply fears while raising new questions around future pipeline and export infrastructure investments designed to byp

Timothy Beggans
May 102 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


NG/LNG – This Week’s Main Drivers and the Look Ahead | 04.19.2026
Source: EIA This week, U.S. natural gas and LNG markets remained under pressure from soft domestic fundamentals despite some global support from ongoing Middle East supply disruptions. This Week’s Main Drivers The headline event was Thursday’s bearish EIA storage report. For the week ending April 10, working gas in storage rose by 59 Bcf to 1,970 Bcf. This build exceeded consensus expectations and pushed inventories 108 Bcf above the five-year average and 126 Bcf higher than

Timothy Beggans
Apr 192 min read


NG/LNG: This Week’s Main Drivers — And the Look Ahead
Source: By Matthew Smith @ Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/96701339@N04/39650222120/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83823860 Global natural gas markets have shifted abruptly from a winter weather narrative to a geopolitical one. As of mid-March 2026, escalating conflict in the Middle East has triggered one of the most volatile weeks for LNG markets in years, exposing the growing link between geopolitics, LNG trade flows, and regional gas pr

Timothy Beggans
Mar 152 min read


Trading Time Itself: Why Natural Gas Calendar Spread Options Are Heating Up
Source: www.tradingview.com Volatility in outright Henry Hub prices often steals the spotlight—but some of the most interesting risk-adjusted opportunities right now are quietly developing in Natural Gas Calendar Spread Options (CSOs). CSOs let traders express a view on relative value between two delivery months, rather than outright price direction. In markets where weather risk, storage dynamics, LNG feed-gas, and production growth don’t hit every month equally, that distin

Timothy Beggans
Feb 72 min read


Natural Gas Funds and Contract “Rolls” – What You Need to Know
Source: SuperGrok Natural gas ETFs like UNG, UNL, BOIL, and KOLD don’t hold physical gas. Instead, they track NYMEX futures, requiring a...

Timothy Beggans
Jul 24, 20252 min read


Natural Gas Trading: The Big Picture
Source: SuperGrok Natural gas is no longer just a domestic commodity—it’s the connective tissue in a globally integrated, increasingly...

Timothy Beggans
Jul 15, 20252 min read


TTF-HH Spread Set to Widen: Key Drivers to Watch
Source: TradingView (TTF-HH Spread) The spread between Europe’s Title Transfer Facility (TTF) and U.S. Henry Hub (HH) natural gas...

Timothy Beggans
Jul 8, 20252 min read
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