Market Activity

Transparency in any market is critical to its overall health and efficiency and enables competition to benefit customers. Electronic trading and the reporting of certain natural gas commodity prices to index publishers is how natural gas markets maintain transparency and foster reliable price discovery.

During the past several years, the natural gas industry, index publishers and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) have worked together to come up with voluntary discovery process to improve transparency and to further ensure market confidence.

This section reflects a compilation of publicly available market activity trends from one or more natural gas index publishers and trading platforms. This page is updated frequently to provide a one-stop-repository for charts and developments. Click on the publisher/exchange’s name to go to its site.

Platts

                                                                                                                          
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Month

Volume(Million MMBtu)

Deals

Tier 1 Points

Tier 2 Points

Tier 3 Points

Jan-07

16.99

2,574

39

11

12

Feb-07

20.52

3,390

43

13

6

Mar-07

25.00

4,050

46

11

5

Apr-07

21.68

3,489

49

9

5

May-07

20.69

3,322

48

11

4

Jun-07

24.00

3,811

43

11

9

Jul-07

22.72

3,586

44

14

5

Aug-07

20.01

3,435

42

18

5

Sep-07

23.67

3,901

47

16

2

Oct-07

25.69

4,142

50

14

2

Nov-07

25.30

4,080

47

15

4

Dec-07

27.61

4,461

49

12

5

Jan-08

20.17

3,232

44

15

6

Feb-08

22.90

3,782

47

14

5

Mar-08

27.24

4,405

49

12

5

Apr-08

26.47

4,344

50

13

2

May-08

29.88

4,602

50

13

2

Jun-08

26.28

4,334

51

10

5

Jul-08

28.67

4,871

50

11

5

Aug-08

29.03

5,135

53

10

3

Sep-08

28.92

5,100

51

13

3

Oct-08

23.22

4,216

48

12

7

Nov-08

23.85

4,200

53

11

3

Dec-08

22.05

3,864

49

16

3

Jan-09

18.24

3,278

48

15

4

Feb-09

20.31

3,703

53

13

2

Mar-09

23.60

4,054

55

11

2

Apr-09

22.87

3,960

54

11

3

May-09

19.92

3,542

50

16

2

Jun-09

20.73

3,650

49

15

4

Jul-09

18.91

3,405

52

13

6

Aug-09

21.34

3,741

55

11

5

Sep-09

21.49

3,586

51

14

5

Oct-09

22.36

3,791

51

12

7

Nov-09

22.65

4,015

56

11

2

Dec-09

22.91

4,015

55

13

2

Jan-10

18.77

2,996

49

15

7

Feb-10

22.65

3,978

55

12

4

Mar-10

25.20

4,109

59

8

3

Apr-10

25.75

4,071

53

12

5

May-10

30.04

4,671

55

13

2

Jun-10

23.34

3,738

53

13

4

Jul-10

21.51

3,259

51

16

3

Aug-10

22.52

3,403

56

13

4

Sep-10

22.22

3,326

57

12

4

Oct-10

20.34

3,115

51

18

4

Nov-11

22.91

3,595

54

14

5

Dec-10

20.34

3,405

52

15

6

Jan-11

14.66

2,418

38

21

13

Feb-11

20.08

3,183

47

20

6

Mar-11

20.62

3,324

49

18

5

Apr-11

22.46

3,509

49

16

7

May-11

21.87

3,292

54

14

4

Jun-11

20.14

3,027

50

17

7

Jul-11

21.35

3,035

47

17

9

Aug-11

22.51

3,224

54

17

4

Note: Last updated August, 2011. Platts’ monthly survey covered 70 pricing locations until Aug. 1, 2004, when seven typically inactive points were deleted. Tier counts do not include points for which no assessment is made in a month because of insufficient market information. Platts in 2003 began grouping pricing points in its monthly gas survey into three tiers: tier 1, volumes of at least 100,000 MMBtu/day and at least 10 trades; tier 2, volumes of 25,000 to 99,999 MMBtu/day and at least five trades; and tier 3, volumes below 25,000 MMBtu/day and/or fewer than five trades. As of August 2004, Platts publishes volumes and number of transactions for points in tiers 1 and 2.

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