Dave Norton, Alaska, Pipeline, oil, gas, AGDC, Hawk, Photo by Dave HarbourWe thank reader Dave Norton (NGP file photo) for making us aware of the impressive agenda of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation's 2013 Arctic/Cold Regions Oil Pipeline Conference, September 17-19 — occurring the same week as the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress with which we were involved.  We hope that the links above will be useful for reader archives.  -dh

From Inside Edge: 

  • After closing at $3.589/MMBtu on Friday, November natural gas futures appeared to be giving back gains in a $3.530/MMBtu to $3.583/MMBtu trading range, while last moving down 5.4 cents at $3.535/MMBtu before the Monday, Sept. 30 open, even though temperature outlooks continue to indicate above-average temperature readings for a wide expanse of the U.S.
  • Working natural gas in storage now totals 179 Bcf less than at the same time in 2012 and 30 Bcf above the five-year average.
  • Rigs drilling for gas dropped another 10 to 376 last week as a result of lower prices, yet we still had a much larger than expected injection.    Read More.