Natural Gas May Start Winter With Below-Normal Stockpiles -- Market Talk
Natural Gas May Start Winter With Below-Normal Stockpiles -- Market Talk
1212 ET - After today's slightly-above-average weekly natural gas injection to storage, the late-October end of injection season is 12 weeks away, and it looks like inventories will finish bullishly below normal heading into winter. The EIA said Tuesday it expects storage to begin the winter withdrawal season at 3.592 tcf, or 4% below the five-year average. The University of Tulsa's Tom Seng says that would take a weekly average injection of 68 billion cubic feet. "I think we will end-up somewhere between this [EIA] forecast and 3.7 tcf which would be an average of 80 bcf per week," he says. (dan.molinski@wsj.com)
1212ET-在今天略高於平均水平的每週天然氣注入儲存之後，距離10月下旬注入季節還有12周，看起來庫存將樂觀地低於正常水平，進入冬季。美國能源情報署週二表示，預計冬季抽水季節開始時的儲存量為3.592 tcf，較五年平均水平低4%.塔爾薩大學(University Of Tulsa)的湯姆·森(Tom Seng)表示，這將需要每週平均注入680億立方英尺。“我想我們最終會落在這兩者之間的某個地方。”[環評]預測值為3.7tcf，平均每週80 bcf。“(dan.molinski@wsj.com)