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Monday, April 2, 2012

Gas Glut: Looking at the Options Available to U.S. Natural Gas

Gas Glut: Looking at the Options Available to U.S. Natural Gas

With global warming driving down the demand for natural gas as a home heating fuel and natural gas drillers producing record amounts, an oversupply situation has developed quickly. Stocks of natural gas are rising. As a result natural gas prices have fallen way below profitability and drillers are scrambling to cut back production.The natural gas surplus that is in our underground storage facilities may be full before fall, forcing producers to slow production until a market for the gas can be found. There are only so many things we can do with…Read more...

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