Spot Price for NatGas in Marcellus/Utica Soars, Up 209% in May

Although the NYMEX price for natural gas took a plunge yesterday due to news that the country's second-largest LNG export facility, Freeport, is offline for three weeks (see today's lead story), the price of physically traded "day-ahead" natural gas (the spot price) in the Marcellus/Utica region continues to soar. In May, the average price of natural gas for day-ahead delivery in the M-U region soared, up 209% over May 2021. The price of spot gas everywhere is up--across the entire country. But it was up the most in the M-U in May.

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