Natural Gas

Anybody remember natural gas below $2?

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Anybody remember natural gas below $2?

Glut Hits Natural-Gas Prices
BY RUSSELL GOLD, DANIEL GILBERT AND RYAN DEZEMBER
online.wsj.com
U.S. energy companies are pumping so much natural gas out of the ground that prices are plummeting, and the cheap gas isn’t likely to evaporate anytime soon.

Natural-gas prices fell 5.7% Wednesday to their lowest level in over two years—good news for people who use gas to heat homes and for companies that use it to power factories.

For U.S. energy companies, however, the domestic natural-gas market is looking increasingly out of whack. Despite a 32% drop in prices last year, onshore production…

Transmission

Derivatives and Transmission Operators

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This federal regulation could raise the cost for these operators without this exemption is their claim. A bigger question is whether the regulation provides any value.

US RTOs and ISOs to seek exemption from US CFTC jurisdiction
Washington (Platts)–6Jan2012/419 pm EST/2119 GMT

All but one of the eight US electric independent system operators and regional transmission organizations plan to ask the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to exempt them for the agency’s jurisdiction, but that request may be months away from being filed and the chances for its success are uncertain, sources said Friday.

The issue centers on new over-the-counter derivatives rules the CFTC has been developing since President Barack Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law in 2010. RTOs and ISOs fear that transactions in their wholesale electricity markets, particularly financial…