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After the hottest summer on record, market watchers are keeping a close eye on natural gas supplies as demand reignites with the winter heating season. Ironically, the state of gas storage is especially questionable in energy-rich Texas and elsewhere in the south as weeks of consecutive days of triple-digit temperatures had air conditioners working overtime. The abnormal demand for gas-driven electrical power came during the typical build-up of winter stockpiles. "Throughout the summer, power generation really surprised to the upside," said Leticia Gonzales, North America price and markets editor for Natural Gas Intelligence, Houston. "We set records starting in the spring and that continued even through September. In the south-central region, inventory builds during the seasonal [gas] injection period were lower due to the extreme heat." |