Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Natural Gas Market Activity

Natural Gas Market Activity

Transparency in any market is critical to its overall health and efficiency and enables competition to benefit customers. Electronic trading and the reporting of certain natural gas commodity prices to index publishers is how natural gas markets maintain transparency and foster reliable price discovery.
During the past several years, the natural gas industry, index publishers and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) have worked together to come up with voluntary discovery process to improve transparency and to further ensure market confidence.
This section reflects a compilation of publicly available market activity trends from one or more natural gas index publishers and trading platforms. This page is updated frequently to provide a one-stop-repository for charts and developments. Click on the publisher/exchange's name to go to its site.
                                                                                                                         


Month
Volume(Million MMBtu)
Deals
Tier 1 Points
Tier 2 Points
Tier 3 Points
Jan-07
16.99
2,574
39
11
12
Feb-07
20.52
3,390
43
13
6
Mar-07
25.00
4,050
46
11
5
Apr-07
21.68
3,489
49
9
5
May-07
20.69
3,322
48
11
4
Jun-07
24.00
3,811
43
11
9
Jul-07
22.72
3,586
44
14
5
Aug-07
20.01
3,435
42
18
5
Sep-07
23.67
3,901
47
16
2
Oct-07
25.69
4,142
50
14
2
Nov-07
25.30
4,080
47
15
4
Dec-07
27.61
4,461
49
12
5
Jan-08
20.17
3,232
44
15
6
Feb-08
22.90
3,782
47
14
5
Mar-08
27.24
4,405
49
12
5
Apr-08
26.47
4,344
50
13
2
May-08
29.88
4,602
50
13
2
Jun-08
26.28
4,334
51
10
5
Jul-08
28.67
4,871
50
11
5
Aug-08
29.03
5,135
53
10
3
Sep-08
28.92
5,100
51
13
3
Oct-08
23.22
4,216
48
12
7
Nov-08
23.85
4,200
53
11
3
Dec-08
22.05
3,864
49
16
3
Jan-09
18.24
3,278
48
15
4
Feb-09
20.31
3,703
53
13
2
Mar-09
23.60
4,054
55
11
2
Apr-09
22.87
3,960
54
11
3
May-09
19.92
3,542
50
16
2
Jun-09
20.73
3,650
49
15
4
Jul-09
18.91
3,405
52
13
6
Aug-09
21.34
3,741
55
11
5
Sep-09
21.49
3,586
51
14
5
Oct-09
22.36
3,791
51
12
7
Nov-09
22.65
4,015
56
11
2
Dec-09
22.91
4,015
55
13
2
Jan-10
18.77
2,996
49
15
7
Feb-10
22.65
3,978
55
12
4
Mar-10
25.20
4,109
59
8
3
Apr-10
25.75
4,071
53
12
5
May-10
30.04
4,671
55
13
2
Jun-10
23.34
3,738
53
13
4
Jul-10
21.51
3,259
51
16
3
Aug-10
22.52
3,403
56
13
4
Sep-10
22.22
3,326
57
12
4
Oct-10
20.34
3,115
51
18
4
Nov-11
22.91
3,595
54
14
5
Dec-10
20.34
3,405
52
15
6
Jan-11
14.66
2,418
38
21
13
Feb-11
20.08
3,183
47
20
6
Mar-11
20.62
3,324
49
18
5
Apr-11
22.46
3,509
49
16
7
May-11
21.87
3,292
54
14
4
Jun-11
20.14
3,027
50
17
7
Jul-11
21.35
3,035
47
17
9
Aug-11
22.51
3,224
54
17
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Note: Last updated August, 2011. Platts' monthly survey covered 70 pricing locations until Aug. 1, 2004, when seven typically inactive points were deleted. Tier counts do not include points for which no assessment is made in a month because of insufficient market information. Platts in 2003 began grouping pricing points in its monthly gas survey into three tiers: tier 1, volumes of at least 100,000 MMBtu/day and at least 10 trades; tier 2, volumes of 25,000 to 99,999 MMBtu/day and at least five trades; and tier 3, volumes below 25,000 MMBtu/day and/or fewer than five trades. As of August 2004, Platts publishes volumes and number of transactions for points in tiers 1 and 2.
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