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Friday, September 28, 2012

What Does the Future Hold for Natural Gas Prices?

What Does the Future Hold for Natural Gas Prices?

Asian demand for natural gas has risen sharply in recent years.  Prices in dollars per million BTUs, are about $13.50 in Argentina and $13.80 in Japan and South Korea, and $13.40 in China.  Even Argentina has a $13.50 price, but U.S. wholesale prices are about $2.50 to $3.00.The world price disparity raises a question that swirls just under the surface of the national energy conversation, which whipsaws between relieved happiness that shale gas exists at all and unfounded fears stoked by extremists that the method of extracting it called…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/What-Does-the-Future-Hold-for-Natural-Gas-Prices.html

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