Natural Gas Futures Tread Lightly Ahead of EIA Storage Print
With mixed weather patterns and a government inventory update only hours away, natural gas futures traded lower early Thursday.
Transco Zone 4 Weekly Natural Gas Price Snapshot
| Location | Transco Zone 4 |
| Pointcode | ALAST85 |
| Region | Southeast |
| Avg. Price | x.xxx |
| D/D Change | x.xxx |
| Range | x.xxx |
| Volume | x.xxx |
| Deals | x.xxx |
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Includes receipts within Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co.’s (Transco) Zone 4, but excludes those in Zones 4A and 4B. Zone 4 begins just upstream of Station 65 at the Louisiana/Mississippi border and ends at the Georgia/South Carolina border. NGI’s index does not include deliveries directly into Zone 4A, which is in Southeast Alabama nor into the offshore Zone 4B segment. However, it does include deliveries into Station 85 from Zones 4A and 4B. We changed the name of this index from Transco Station 85 to Transco Zone 4 in October 2010.
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