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2 weeks ago | naturalgasintel.com | Jodi Shafto |Andrew Baker |Kevin Dobbs |Leticia Gonzales

Jodi Shafto joined NGI as a Senior Natural Gas Reporter in October 2023. Before that, she was a business news reporter for South Carolina's largest daily newspaper, The Post and Courier, and was a Senior Energy Markets Reporter at S&P Global Market Intelligence. Based out of Charleston, Jodi has covered US energy markets since 2005 as a reporter, editor and analyst. A New Jersey native, she holds a BS in Journalism from Bowling Green State University.

2 weeks ago | naturalgasintel.com | Chris Newman |Jacob Dick |Jodi Shafto |Andrew Baker

Chris Newman joined NGI in October 2023. He worked 18 years at Argus Media, starting in 2004 in Washington, D.C., where he covered U.S. thermal/coking coal markets and rail transportation. In 2014, he moved to Singapore to help lead Argus’ coverage of steel and its raw material feedstocks. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Chris returned to his native Virginia in 2021.

2 weeks ago | naturalgasintel.com | Kevin Dobbs |Andrew Baker

Natural gas futures hovered deep in the red through early afternoon trading on Friday as market participants mulled competing fundamentals and a shrinking storage deficit. A stock market rout in the wake of uncertainty imposed by the Trump administration’s latest tariff policies also cast a shadow over commodities.

2 weeks ago | naturalgasintel.com | Jacob Dick |Jodi Shafto |Andrew Baker |Chris Newman

LNG Canada has received a cooldown cargo at the British Columbia (BC) facility ahead of its expected startup of commercial operations this summer. The Western Canada export project disclosed Tuesday that a vessel arrived at the LNG Canada site in Kitimat in the first natural gas import to arrive on Canada’s west coast. The Shell plc-chartered Maran Gas Roxana vessel loaded at the Queensland Curtis LNG plant in Australia in mid-March, according to Kpler data.

2 weeks ago | naturalgasintel.com | Chris Newman |Jodi Shafto |Andrew Baker

Seven months after the Matterhorn Express Pipeline LLC added much needed takeaway capacity for natural gas out of the Permian Basin, new pipeline bottlenecks are already forming, creating price discounts at key Texas trading hubs that could persist throughout 2025. A stretch of sub-zero spot pricing for Permian benchmark Waha in March arrived about four months after the basin appeared to have shaken off last year's prolonged bout of negative pricing.