Credit Suisse: Warmer Weather Impacts Natural Gas Storage


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The weather heading into the Christmas holiday was "much warmer" than it was last year and "slightly warmer" than the five-year average, analysts at Credit Suisse said in a research report.

The Analysts

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Credit Suisse's William Featherston, Betty Jiang, William Janela and three others. 

The Thesis

The U.S. Energy Information Administration is expected to report a 110-to-120-Bcf withdrawal for the week ending Dec. 22, according to Credit Suisse. This reading would fall notably short of the 237-Bcf withdrawal for the same week one year ago, but in-line with the five-year average of a 107-Bcf withdrawal. As a whole, natural gas inventories fell to 3,329 Bcf, which would narrow the deficit versus last year to 31 Bcf and pushes up the surplus versus the five-year average to 147 Bcf.

Over the past month, the weather-adjusted S/D has been oversupplied by around 1.3 Bcfd versus last year but around 1 Bcfd undersupplied versus the five-year average, the report said. The storage withdrawal season will likely end with inventories exiting the winter at around 1.5 Tcf, the analysts said. 


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"This implies valuations are modestly attractive vs. the long-dated (2021) futures curve of $2.83/MMBtu and our normalized forecast of $3/MMBtu," according to Credit Suisse. 

The analyst's top E&P picks are:

  • Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO)
  • Continental Resources, Inc. (NYSE:CLR)
  • Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC)
  • Cimarex Energy Co (NYSE:XEC)
  • Extraction Oil & Gas Inc (NYSE:XOG)

Credit Suisse's top picks in gas are:

  • EQT Corporation (NYSE:EQT)
  • Range Resources Corp. (NYSE:RRC)

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