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-在今天略高于平均水平的每周天然气注入储存之后，距离10月下旬注入季节还有12周，看起来库存将乐观地低于正常水平，进入冬季。美国能源情报署周二表示，预计冬季抽水季节开始时的储存量为3.592 tcf，较五年平均水平低4%.塔尔萨大学(University Of Tulsa)的汤姆·森(Tom Seng)表示，这将需要每周平均注入680亿立方英尺。“我想我们最终会落在这两者之间的某个地方。”[环评]预测值为3.7tcf，平均每周80 bcf。“(dan.molinski@wsj.com)