据管道&天然气杂志网1月7日报道，据美国能源信息署(Energy Information Administration)最新的周天然气更新报告宣布，基于二叠纪盆地的亨利枢纽(Henry Hub)在二叠纪高速管道投入使用后迅速地呈正趋势上升。
去年12月30日，靠近二叠纪盆地生产活动的西德克萨斯州Waha Hub的均价为2.42美元/百万英热单位，比亨利枢纽的价格高出3美分/百万英热单位。据EIA报告称，截至周三，周最高均价为2.52美元/百万英热单位，比亨利枢纽的价格低18美分/百万英热单位。
金德·摩根（Kinder Morgan）的二叠纪高速管道于1月1日开始商业运营，这将向二叠纪盆地至德克萨斯州连接美国墨西哥湾沿岸和墨西哥市场的Katy增加21亿立方英尺/天的输送能力。
与此同时，美国去年12月份的液化天然气出口也创下了历史新高。据EIA基于彭博社金融航运数据的估计显示，日均出口98亿立方英尺。
据EIA报告指出，继去年11月份也创纪录以来，12月份的出口量比夏季以来的出口水平高出三倍以上。
导致美国液化天然气出口水平上升的因素包括，亚洲主要液化天然气消费市场的冬季气温低于正常水平，以及澳大利亚、马来西亚、卡塔尔、挪威、尼日利亚和特立尼达和多巴哥的液化天然气出口设施出现计划外中断。根据EIA的报告，这些中断提高了亚洲和欧洲的天然气和液化天然气价格，吸引了更多来自美国的灵活液化天然气供应。
根据HIS Markit的数据显示，与上次报告相比，美国的天然气总消费量下降了2.9％。
根据反映去年12月31日至今年1月6日数据的报告显示，向美国液化天然气出口设施或液化天然气管道的交付量保持不变，日均为110亿桶/日。
据报告显示，东北地区天然气价格上涨。在纽约市的横跨大陆管道6区贸易点，价格从12月30日的2.31美元/百万英热单位上涨49美分，至周三2.80美元/百万英热单位的高位。
郝芬 译自 管道&天然气杂志网
原文如下：
Waha Hub Prices Rise with Permian Highway Pipeline in Service
The Permian Basin basis to the Henry Hub briefly went positive as the Permian Highway pipeline entered service, the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest weekly natural gas update announced.
The price at the Waha Hub in West Texas, near Permian Basin production activities, averaged $2.42/MMBtu Kinder Morgan’s Permian Highway pipeline began commercial in-service This report accompanied news that U.S. LNG exports had another record-breaking month in December. The exports averaged 9.8 Bcf/d, EIA estimates show based This follows a November that was also record breaking and makes December’s exports more than three times higher than the export levels from summer 2020, the EIA report states.
Factors to the higher levels of U.S. LNG exports include colder-than-normal winter temperatures in key Asian LNG-consuming markets and unplanned outages at LNG export facilities in Australia, Malaysia, Qatar, Norway, Nigeria and Trinidad and Tobago. These outages increased natural gas and LNG prices in Asia and Europe, attracting higher volumes of flexible LNG supplies from the U.S., according to the EIA report.
The total U.S. consumption of natural gas fell, though, by 2.9% compared to the previous report, according to data from HIS Markit.
Natural gas deliveries to U.S. LNG export facilities, or LNG pipeline receipts, remained about the same, averaging 11.0 Bcf/d, according to the report that reflects data from Dec. 31 through Jan. 6.
Northeast natural gas prices increased, the report shows. At the Transcontinental Pipeline Zone 6 trading point for New York City, the price increased 49 cents from $2.31/MMBtu on Dec. 30 to a high of $2.80/MMBtu on Wednesday.
