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UK Gas price highest in World.  

11 September 2009


The UK gas price in Q409 is attracting significant volumes of LNG gas to the UK but there is real doubt as to whether these prices levels will be maintained.  read more...

Bearish Gas Market  

04 September 2009


The short system seen during the week provided little support in a bearish market.  read more...

Gas storage worries  

03 March 2008


Storage stocks low but they could be zero.  read more...

Centrica strategically planning  

20 February 2008


Centrica looks to Norway for the future.  read more...

Gas capacity change in 2008  

12 February 2008


Will NG announce to the market what more capapcity could be availbel at the end of the year?  read more...

Rough starting to fill up.  

02 January 2008


Storage still a very important dynamic in the gas market.  read more...

The future RWE and GE  

27 December 2007


The future is electricity storage the first to achieve it will become very rich.  read more...

Traders seem to balance badly  

21 December 2007


Traders keen to see Christmas early as they continue to withdraw from Rough.  read more...

Gas storage being used across Northern Europe  

13 December 2007


Storage facilities are being used and giving traders and operators more flexibility worldwide.  read more...

Sellers do have opportunities  

23 October 2007


The opportunities are out there but it is a matter of picking when will be a good time to go for them.  read more...

Short-term worries, sorted.  

16 October 2007


Gas supply increases at the same time that two nuclear units return. Prompt price may well return below £30 and the sell off could be short and quick. Oil pries continue to worry.  read more...

Market steady in uncertaintity  

09 October 2007


Market unsure which direction to turn and traders are getting conflicting fundamental data from the gas and power markets.  read more...

Fuel switching does occur!  

27 September 2007


Gas becoming the dominant fuel type.  read more...

Rough Outage  

06 September 2007


Rough outage encourges a bit of gaming.  read more...

Q3 continues to rise  

02 May 2007


Q3 continues to rise on some gas concerns and arbitrage opportunities with Europe. It is likely that there will be a bit of a squeeze on prices in Q3 and hence the premia but the market looks a little over hyped.  read more...

Why Summer 08 still looks high.  

19 March 2007


It is easy to look a t Summer 08 on its own but in comparison to some of the other seasons it does not look a good season yet.  read more...

Peak demand low for one of the coldest weeks in Winter  

25 January 2007


The market is responding to low demand plentiful supply with further falls. Summer 07 has not breached £25 but there is every chance it could.  read more...

Market continues to fall  

12 December 2006


The market is responding to fundamentals, which are that if it is raining it is not too cold, and so demand is quite steady. Storage is full.  read more...

Gas storage still full  

11 December 2006


All fundamentals do point to a lower prices but it is difficult to sell when the market fundamentals have not been fully tested.  read more...

Gas prices go negative  

04 October 2006


Gas prices prove elusive as they go negative the first time for ten years.  read more...

Gas in the middle of Political Debate  

24 August 2006


Gas is plentiful and although a few are arguing that it could be tight most are realising that lessons have been learnt from last year.  read more...

Rough influences Winter 06  

05 July 2006


Market edgy on the back of new Rough information and a feeling that the prompt is under pressure with warm weather and plant outages. As July today has been 10 degrees hotter than average, players know that this could drive prompt very high with air conditioning demand.  read more...

Could Summer hot up.  

29 June 2006


A few trades are beginning show that they have some merit, Summer could be under some pressure in the next few weeks but after that we should see an oversupplied August and September.  read more...

8 GW of plant goes on outage.  

28 June 2006


A stream of plant are now on outage if the market fundamentals can cope (which everything suggests they can) then we are in for a low Summer, and this could pull Winter with it.  read more...

Too Hot for Winter  

13 June 2006


Whilst the outside temperature confirms it must be summer, inside the traded markets are looking forwards to Winter.  read more...

The bears are back  

07 June 2006


The market has slipped on fundamentals which suggest that the slide could be here for some time, but there are still events in the pipeline which could force some things North.  read more...

Rough Outage  

02 June 2006


Rough Outage Update  read more...

Lacklustre Markets  

31 May 2006


Markets bore traders into submission and allow most to balance portfolios before the markets die completely as a result of the World Cup.  read more...

Rough back in the mix.  

25 May 2006


The market is back to looking at fundmentals, with the emissions price under pressure from dark spread traders, gas looking overbought, and high both in terms of spark numbers but also in terms fundmentals, with plenty of gas around to service any injections, when they finally occur.  read more...

Mr and Mrs Transatlantic Crossing and their dog Rough.  

25 April 2006


Rough annoucement drives prices in the back end of the curve North. Causing some players to rush to get their bullish tendencies out of the cupboard.  read more...

Oil supplies look not to have upset the power market.  

18 April 2006


Oil talk dominates the news with record highs, but the power market does not seem to reacting too much, gas already well bid is being careful about further rises.  read more...

Bulls respond to cold snap with a vengeance.  

13 April 2006


The market has repsonded to a lack of supply and a cold snap driven demand increase with a significant price rise across the curve. It is hoped that when the snow melts so will the price but it traditionally takes longer for the back end to fall.  read more...

Funny happenings in Summer- smile to grimace  

31 March 2006


Rough causes bulge in the Summer, which is unlikely to remain here for the long term, but is a potential front running of an existing Centrica position.  read more...

Winter 06 bid up on rumour  

27 March 2006


Winter 06 has risen in the last week, despite a dramatic fall in prompt prices and Summer individual months, players are still keen to buy Winter 06.  read more...

Isn't it Ironic  

14 March 2006


Dark and spark spreads have polarised the market, but when its cold and the flexibility to adjust in the gas market goes, so does the price.  read more...

The Interpretation of Data  

10 March 2006


Oil data gets put through the mill,  for some interesting variations on the future. One thing for certain is that no one is predicting a dramatic fall off of oil prices.  read more...

How do you spot value in the curve  

03 March 2006


Traders do not always know when there is value in the curve, but sometimes some analysis can change the balance of probabilities.  read more...

March 06 v April 06  

23 February 2006


March and April as individual months are difficult to trade on a time spread but fundamental information is helping point in certain directions which help the decision.  read more...

Rough out for March  

21 February 2006


Rough looks to be out for a month, and March rises, and April falls as people bank on a return towards the end of March. The effect on the curve is a ripple of bearishness in Summer 06 and a rise in Winter 06 from the oil rise.  read more...

Bears return with passion  

09 December 2005


Market falls on mild weather, settling of the gas market and the start of the Christmas season. Traders happy to react to the incumbent players.  read more...

Bearish Sentiment feeds into market on potential mild weather  

29 November 2005


Prices fall as most had predicted but with mild weather on the way the fear is when will the next cold snap strike.  read more...

Gas market threatens to push to £2 a therm  

23 November 2005


Gas is responsible for huge increase in prices across all commodities, players filled with fears associated with further rises, are now beginning to just hope that prices fall.  read more...

Are the markets broken?  

14 November 2005


The market is becoming more volatile less liquid and players are spooked, it is not broken, it is just more scary to operate it.  read more...

NGC-Forecast that this Winter the lights will stay on.  

06 October 2005


Looks like the hype associated with cold Winters and the lights going out have been greatly exaggerated.  read more...

Power Market Stunned  

15 July 2005


Low liquidity as traders carefully look at which way the market might go next week.  read more...

Emissions Demand and Supply  

17 June 2005


"'Curiouser and curiouser,' cried Alice!" Alice and Wonderland  read more...

Emissions Spark and the prompt  

19 May 2005


Muck spreaders inflate the Winter 05 market.  read more...

Is Winter too cheap?  

29 March 2005


Winter 05 power to remain at current levels with gas to fall.  read more...


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EdF has capitalised on competitive energy markets across Europe, not least in the UK, while at the same time enjoying a dominant, competition free, environment at home in France. It looks as though the EC has finally caught up with them...  read more...

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Market forgets basic principles and panics!  

02 October 2009


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