North American natural gas prices have gathered some momentum for the first time in many months amid tighter supply balances.
The New York Mercantile Exchange contract for September was trading at around $2.200/MMBtu on Thursday afternoon after the U.S. government announced that storage supplies in the country actually shrunk last week. This is rare during the summer months.
U.S. production of around 100 Bcf/d is also about 3 Bcf/d lower than summer highs.