March NYMEX Natural Gas Futures Contract Closed at $4.354 on Friday, January 30th

February 2, 2026

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Friday, January 30th saw the front-month NYMEX Natural Gas contract open at $3.779, $0.139 below Thursday’s closing price of $3.918. Stumbling overnight as markets reacted to promising production readings, the contract posted a steady recovery through the morning as Arctic conditions are expected to return over the weekend. Surpassing the $4.000 level ahead of midday, a brief withdrawal in the afternoon was supplanted by another round of buying as prices tallied an intraday high of $4.034 ahead of 2:30PM. March closed higher on Friday at $4.354.

The EIA Natural Gas Storage Report published last Thursday posted a 242 BCF withdrawal from storage for the week ended January 23 – greater than the market estimate of a 230 BCF withdrawal. Total working gas in storage was reported as 2,823 BCF; 7.9% above this time last year and 5.3% above the five-year average.

As of 6:30AM this morning in Globex, WTI Crude was down $3.440; Natural Gas was down $0.719; Heating Oil was down $0.119; and Gasoline was down $0.087.

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