Georgina Mccartney and Scott Disavino of Reuters report that U.S. natural gas producers are eyeing more output cuts as prices sink. They write:
Major U.S. natural gas producers are preparing to further curtail production in the second half of 2024, after prices sank nearly 40% over the past two months.
Henry Hub gas futures have dropped to around $2 per million British thermal units (mmBtu), while in West Texas, Waha prices have turned negative a record number of times so far in 2024. Prices fell as demand softened following cooler than expected temperatures. Supplies had expanded meanwhile, as some producers lifted production during the second quarter after prices climbed some 47% in April and May.
EQT (EQT.N), opens new tab, one of the top gas producers in the U.S., has embedded around 90 billion cubic feet equivalent of strategic curtailments this fall, which the company will carry out if the market remains depressed, CFO Jeremy Knop said during the company’s second quarter earnings call.
Houston, Texas-based Apache is also set to curtail, a further 90 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas in the third quarter, its CFO, Stephen J. Riney told analysts in an investors call last week. […]
U.S. natural gas output will average around 103.3 bcfd this year, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in its August edition of the short-term energy outlook report.
That compares with 103.8 bcfd produced last year, and is a slight downgrade from a forecast of 103.5 bcfd in the July edition of the report.
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