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title: "Natural Gas Catch Up"
url: https://independentstockanalysis.com/natural-gas-catch-up/
description: "Raymond James Energy Stat of the Week: Don’t expect supply to be a team player. Raymond James Natural Gas Head Fake? Can the 44% price run-up be…"
published: 2012-05-29
updated: 2012-05-29
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# Natural Gas Catch Up

Published 2012-05-29

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J.J. Butler

Raymond James Energy Stat of the Week: Don’t expect supply to be a team player. [Raymond James](http://www.raymondjames.com/Branches/c2c/7ho/Whittakercooper/resource.asp?page=energy_stat.htm)

Natural Gas Head Fake? Can the 44% price run-up be sustained? [RBN Energy](http://www.rbnenergy.com/natural-gas-head-fake)

That 44% run-up put in perspective in the chart at the top of this Energy Costs & Reshoring in the USA blog post: [Yardeni](http://blog.yardeni.com/2012/05/energy-costs-reshoring-in-usa.html)

Be careful with mainstream press articles depicting the export of North American natural gas as some kind of panacea: Natural Gas Producers in Survival Mode at the [Financial Post](http://business.financialpost.com/2012/05/18/natural-gas-producers-in-survival-mode/?__lsa=93fbebdb) and Why American Natural Gas Will Change The World at [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/05/26/why-american-natural-gas-will-change-the-world/)*.*The global LNG market is only about 27 bcf/d in size. US and Canadian producers can crash that market too.

Japanese Buyers Line Up for U.S. Shale Gas: Loss of Nuclear Power Plants, Cheap Prices Bring Investors: Will Department of Energy Approve Exports Over Objections. [WSJ](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303505504577406061245167558.html) (Google the title and click through to read the whole story.)

The rig count from last Friday, with chart: [Haynesville Play](http://www.haynesvilleplay.com/2012/05/us-rig-count-3-to-1983.html)