Ocekujuci pocetak sezone grijanja (iako je u US jos uvijek toplo, s temperaturama od 20 do 25 stupnjeva) i prateci rezultate popravka unistenih postrojenja prilikom Katrine i pogotovo Rite (koje ce izbaciti npr. rafinerije iz upotrebe za slijedecih nekoliko mjeseci), problem koji se pojavljuje, a o kojem je vec bilo rijeci je Natural Gas...
Proizvodnja u US je bila na 90% kapaciteta i nema mogucnosti za daljnji porast, jedina mogucnost povecanja kolicina je uvoz prirodnog plina (ukapljenog, naravno) uglavnom kroz-pogodite koje podrucje!
Osim sto je to trenutno neizvedivo, ostaje i problem kapaciteta tog uvoza jer US za to mora izgraditi 6-8 novih terminala do 2010. i jos nekoliko u razdoblju nakon 2010.
Problem troskova i cijene takvog plina ostavljam za neki od slijedecih postova...
The Katrina and Rita ripples on the natural gas market
Natural gas for November delivery rose 20.7 cents to a record $14.224 per million British thermal units on the NYME Tuesday afternoon after Interior Secretary Gale Norton warned it would probably take months before repairs to oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico region would return production from that key region to normal. The Minerals Management Service reported that Gulf oil and gas production remains severely restricted, with 90% of the oil and over 70% of natural gas still off-line now a week and a half after Hurricane Rita came ashore.
The gas market was already stretched thin by heavy demand from power generators over the summer, but the double whammy of damage to production facilities from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita over the past month have jolted the natural gas market. As a result, futures contracts on the Nymex have nearly doubled since late July. The one good piece of news from the oil and gas markets was that crude oil, gasoline and heating-oil futures continue to weaken in the face of high pump prices and resultant diminished U.S. gasoline consumption in recent weeks. Oil futures fell for the third straight session on the Nymex as November light, sweet crude-oil futures slid $1.57 to $63.90 a barrel, the lowest price since mid-September.
Dakle, prosjecnom Amerikancu ostaje nada da ce zima biti blaga...hm, mozda da vidimo jel Indijanci navlace drva?