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In the energy markets, traders call it an anomaly or a price discrepancy, sometimes with a rational basis, sometimes not. Case in point: the oil/natural gas price ratio. A barrel of oil contains ...
Natural gas burning on a gas stove Burning of natural gas coming out of the ground. Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas, or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) [1] in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
I remember hearing about how cheap natural gas was when I was interning at a hedge fund in the summer of 2009. For as long as traders had known, the price of natural gas was highly correlated with ...
Natural gas combined-cycle power (NGCC), which captures the exhaust heat generated by combusting natural gas to power a steam generator, are considered the most efficient large-scale thermal power plants. One study found that the life-cycle demand for water from coal power in Texas could be more than halved by switching the fleet to NGCC. [100]
A natural-gas processing plant in Aderklaa, Austria. Natural-gas processing is a range of industrial processes designed to purify raw natural gas by removing contaminants such as solids, water, carbon dioxide (CO 2), hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S), mercury and higher molecular mass hydrocarbons to produce pipeline quality dry natural gas [1] for pipeline distribution and final use. [2]
While natural gas producers have been suffering from stubbornly low prices since the advent of the shale gas boom, companies engaged in gathering, processing, transmitting, and distributing ...
The Marcellus natural gas trend is a large geographic area of prolific shale gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale or Marcellus Formation, of Devonian age, in the eastern United States. [2] The shale play encompasses 104,000 square miles and stretches across Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and into eastern Ohio and western New York. [ 3 ]
The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which advisor Andy Cross and senior analyst Bryan White discuss topics across the investing world.Natural gas prices are ...