U.S. gas producers skimped on price hedges and now face a reckoning

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A rout in natural gas prices will hurt first-quarter earnings and cash flows at gas producers as hedges - the industry's version of price insurance - were inadequate to offset the expected losses, analysts and industry experts said.

said in October that the vast majority of its hedges would roll off by Jan 1.

Effectively, this is a calculated bet that gas will fall to a certain level and no further. But when it falls below the predicted lower price, it takes away some of the benefits of the hedge., for example, bought puts for 900 million cubic feet at $3.40 per million cubic feet , while also selling puts for $2.50 mmcf for the first quarter, according to a November presentation.

 

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