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Posted March 13, 2024 Today in Energy ›

Winter storms have disrupted U.S. natural gas production ›

Over the last four winters, winter storms Uri (February 2021), Elliott (December 2022), and most recently, Heather (January 2024) interrupted weekly U.S. natural gas production by more than 15 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), according to daily estimates from S&P Global Commodity Insights. These declines were the largest interruptions to U.S. natural gas production during the past four years. Although the impacts of these disruptions appear more muted over the course of a month, winter storms Uri and Elliott still drove declines in monthly average natural gas production of 3 Bcf/d to 7 Bcf/d. More

weekly ranges of estimated U.S. dry natural gas production

Data source: S&P Global Commodity Insights

Data Highlights

WTI crude oil futures price

3/12/2024: $77.56/barrel

down$0.59 from week earlier
up$0.88 from year earlier

Natural gas futures price

3/12/2024: $1.714/MMBtu

down$0.243 from week earlier
down$0.716 from year earlier

Retail heating oil price

3/11/2024: $4.033/gal

down$0.030 from week earlier
down$0.151 from year earlier

Crude oil inventories

3/8/2024: 447.0 million barrels

down1.5 million barrels from week earlier
down33.1 million barrels from year earlier

Weekly coal production

3/2/2024: 9.840 million tons

down0.639 million tons from week earlier
down2.773 million tons from year earlier