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Natural Gas Is Ready to Rally


8501 Hegu 22/4 2009 13:11
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http://www.growthstockwire.com/archive/2009/apr/2009_apr_20.asp


By Jeff Clark
April 20, 2009

There is no shortage of natural gas bears in the investment community. Natural gas prices have been falling for months and so far bearish bets have paid off.

But if they're smart, the bears will take their profits now and hibernate for the rest of the year. Natural gas has bottomed and is ready to rally – big time.

Of course, the bears will argue otherwise. But they're wrong... They're letting logic cloud their thinking and it's blinding them to the opportunity in front of them.

Logic says there is a glut of natural gas the market. Logic dictates the oversupply of natural gas should pressure prices lower until the forces of supply and demand deal with the glut. And logic is correct.

What the bears are missing here, though, is the market already knows this. The market knows there's a glut. The market knows natural gas prices have to move lower to correct the supply-and-demand imbalance. And the market has already responded.

Last week, natural gas prices dropped as low as $3.50 per million British thermal units (BTUs). That's as low as prices have been in nearly seven years. In fact, $3.50 is widely regarded as the "shut in" price for natural gas. That's the price at which natural gas drillers are better off closing down the well than continuing because it costs more to extract the gas than what the drillers can sell it for.

In other words, natural gas cannot fall much below $3.50 before drillers start shutting wells. Once that happens, the forces of supply and demand start going the other way. And the market knows this...

Which is why natural gas bounced off of the $3.50 price level and is now trading at $3.86. The market has already discounted the natural gas supply glut. It started discounting it in the fourth quarter last year when, for the first time in a decade, natural gas prices fell during the last three months of the year.

Now the market is ready to start discounting a drawdown in natural gas supplies. The drawdown won't happen immediately. Heck, it may not happen for several more months. But the market is a discounting mechanism. Prices will start to increase well before the fundamental factors support such a move.

We should soon see natural gas prices begin to trade more in line with their historic relationship with oil.

As you can tell from the following chart, it now takes roughly 15 million BTUs of natural gas to buy one barrel of oil...


Historically, this ratio has trended around 10. In fact, for most of the past decade, the ratio has been closer to eight.

The current 15-to-1 ratio is the most extreme reading of the past 20 years. This means one of two things has to be true: Either oil is too expensive or natural gas is too cheap.

If oil is too expensive, then oil prices will fall while natural gas holds steady. If natural gas is too cheap, then there's the potential for a huge rally in the works.

Either way, the downside to buying natural gas right here is limited and the upside is huge.

Best regards and good trading,

Jeff Clark



23/4 2009 00:52 Kenddinvare 08581



De to centrale forhold/argumenter er:
1.Gasprisen som gennemgående målt i forhold til brændværdi har ligget lavt i forhold til olie nu ligger ekstraordinært lavt.
2. At 3,5$ er en kritisk værdi, hvor produktion vil blive tilbageholdt/indstillet i stor mængde.

1.Medfører på kort sigt at anlæg, der kan bruge begge brændsler vil gå mere over til gas, hvorved olieefterspørgslen falder (men næppe så meget at det egentlig påvirker prisen), mens gasforbruget stiger med nogen prispåvirkning opad.
Ved længere misforhold vil, der starte en større konvertering af anlæg, som vil have langvarig virkning.

2. Jeg har ikke fulgt gaspriser længe og tæt nok til at vide om påstanden holder. Jeg forestiller mig dog at grænsen ikke er helt skarp, da produktionsomkostninger må svinge fra felt til felt.
Derudover er der en forskel på at lukke noget ned og at undlade at starte nyt. Det må især være på sidstnævnte område, der først ses en virkning, men at det er aktuelt ses af meldingen fra Chesapeake om at skære 13 % af deres produktion, så mon ikke der foregår overvejelser blandt gasproducenterne om at lave en samlet aktion.
Dog skal man i forhold til spådommen om et snarligt stort rally i gaspris tænke på at samme forventninger til en vis forbedring af den globale økonomi senere i år som har hjulpet aktier opad en god månedstid kan blive brudt og et stykke tid blive afløst af ny katastrofestemning.



28/4 2009 01:07 TGSC 09071



Hej,
jeg er ny abe i buret her.

Energiministeriet forventer lidt højere gaspriser fremover, men der er stadig lang tid til de $7-8 kommer igen hvor de fleste shale gas er rentable.
Foventet pris 4,24 i 2009, og 5,80 i 2010 (gennemsnit).
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/apr09.pdf

Det ved markedet godt, og tager forskud nu på vendingen i gaspris. Med lidt held kan man nå at gafle et mindre tilbagefald i gasaktierne før gasprisen vender.

Der er også ganske meget spekulation :
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=axgidptlOkSA

Marcellus har formentlig den mest attraktive økonomi, men jeg kan ikke lige finde den oversigt jeg så det i.

Prisfaldet skyldes bl.a overforsyning :
http://321energy.com/editorials/energyreport/energyreport032109.html



28/4 2009 01:53 CHjort 09083



Hegu du glemte at kopiere grafen. Så den kommer her.
By Jeff Clark
April 20, 2009

Gode hilsner> CHjort



28/4 2009 09:35 TGSC 09087



Grafen kan løbende følges her :
http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=$WTIC:$NATGAS&p=D&b=5&g=0&id=0

Men hvordan får man den til at vise mere end 3 år som Jeff gjorde ?
Det hjælper ikke at taste 2001 i startfeltet, den viser stadig kun fra 2006.



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