{"id":366572,"date":"2026-03-30T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366572\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:58:09","slug":"us-natural-gas-falls-on-warmer-outlook-growing-storage-surplus-energy-news-top-headlines-commentaries-features-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/366572\/","title":{"rendered":"US Natural Gas Falls on Warmer Outlook, Growing Storage Surplus &#8211; Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features &#038; Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/authors\/AX9wgE3YdEU\/julian-hast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Julian Hast<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-281670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Natural-Gas-Terminal-1200x810-1-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"Natural Gas Terminal\"  \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>US natural gas futures ended lower on forecasts showing warmer weather than previously expected in the eastern US, as well as market expectations that domestic stockpiles will increase relative to seasonally normal levels in the coming weeks as demand lowers moving into spring.<\/p>\n<p>US gas storage levels, which were up by 14 billion cubic feet from the seasonal norm as of March 19, will move to a 155 bcf surplus by April 16, Eli Rubin, senior energy analyst at EBW Analytics Group, said in a Monday note to clients.\n<\/p>\n<p>Looking further down the price curve, the October-January spread has rapidly expanded since the war broke out in the Middle East. High production levels continue to push down October prices. Meanwhile, geopolitical risk is boosting the contract for delivery in January, when the northeastern US imports liquefied natural gas to supplement its scarce pipeline capacity during cold weather, according to a report from Energy Aspects.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"NTI1LDcsMzYwMA==\" href=\"https:\/\/headwindsolutions.ca\/shocker-pass\/support\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shocker Edge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ShockerPASS-Headwind-Solutions-Banner-1400x179-2025-V1.png\"\/><\/a><a class=\"gofollow\" data-track=\"NTExLDcsMzYwMA==\" href=\"https:\/\/microwatt.com\/product-category\/industrial-iot\/robotics\/\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MicroWatt Controls: Instrumentation &amp; Safety System Experts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MicroWatt-ROBOT-Desktop-1400x179-V3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Futures for May delivery settled -13.8c, or -4.6%, to $2.887\/mmbtu on Nymex<br \/>\nThe October-January spread has widened to -$1.689\/mmbtu from -$1.222\/mmbtu before the start of the war<\/p>\n<p>Weather:\n<\/p>\n<p>Forecasts shifted warmer in the eastern half of the US, with above-average temperatures expected from March 30-April 3 and April 9-13: Commodity Weather Group<br \/>\nSee WHUT for a map of latest 6-10 day weather forecast: NOAA<\/p>\n<p>Daily BNEF Gas Data:\n<\/p>\n<p>Lower-48 dry gas production on Monday ~113.7 bcf\/day, or +5.4% y\/y<br \/>\nLower-48 total gas demand on Monday ~71.2 bcf\/day, or +2.4% y\/y<br \/>\nDry gas exports to Mexico on Monday ~6.6 bcf\/day, or -4.3% w\/w<br \/>\nEstimated gas flows to LNG export terminals on Monday ~20.2 bcf\/day, or +2.9% w\/w<\/p>\n<p>Gas Market News:\n<\/p>\n<p>This story was produced with the assistance of Bloomberg Automation.<\/p>\n<p>Share This:  <\/p>\n<p>            More News Articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Julian Hast US natural gas futures ended lower on forecasts showing warmer weather than previously expected in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-366572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}