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North America Commodities Research 12 June 214 Natural Gas Weekly & Storage Recap Price action suggests gas market recognition of lower end-october storage trajectory potential As the analytic community gets ever more granular in terms of supply and demand data and deliverability, very slight volumetric differences in weekly storage reports from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) are given greater and greater market value. The price reaction at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) today suggests that there is indeed a level that is too low for comfort in terms of end-october working gas inventories and that the market will help capacity holders solve for something above that mark. We came into this week having under-estimated the prior, holiday-impacted injection in part due to some misleading pipeline flows and today s reported injection confirmed the misleading nature of recent publicly-available storage flow data. Our hybrid methodology relying on purely supply/demand fundamentals and then utilizing pipeline flows as a check against that at least saved us this week from anticipating something quite a bit larger. Those relying purely on pipeline flows created even higher expectations, making us the best of the bad today. Commodities Scott C. Speaker Shikha Chaturvedi (1-212) 834-3245 shikha.x.chaturvedi@jpmorgan.com JPMorgan Chase Bank NA Today s 17 (15.29 /day) reported injection and the weather forecast changes this morning pushed our end-october expectation down to just above the 3.4 Tcf level. We have noted in the past but it s probably worth repeating that our expectation builds in a loosening third quarter balance due to our assumption that the market will test higher price levels. A higher-than-expected production profile would likely produce a similar outcome. Were we to assume that the forward curve stays static over the next 21 weeks and production remains relatively close to where it is now, we would likely be looking for an end-october level around 3.3 Tcf. We continuously assess our outlook for 215 fundamentals and price formation as changes in near-term price impact commercial participant behavior and market activity. Exhibit 1: Natural gas price vs. storage deviation $16 Storage Deviation $14 $12 $1 $8 $6 $4 $2 Price 1 8 6 4 2-2 -4-6 -8-1 $ Mar-8 Mar-9 Mar-1 Mar-11 Mar-12 Mar-13 Mar-14-12 See page 4 for analyst certification and important disclosures. www.jpmorganmarkets.com

12 June 214 As the analytic community gets ever more granular in terms of supply and demand data and deliverability, very slight volumetric differences in weekly storage reports from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) are given greater and greater market value. The price reaction at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) today suggests that there is indeed a level that is too low for comfort in terms of end-october working gas inventories and that the market will help capacity holders solve for something above that mark. We came into this week having under-estimated the prior, holiday-impacted injection in part due to some misleading pipeline flows and today s reported injection confirmed the misleading nature of recent publicly-available storage flow data. Our hybrid methodology relying on purely supply/demand fundamentals and then utilizing pipeline flows as a check against that at least saved us this week from anticipating something quite a bit larger. Those relying purely on pipeline flows created even higher expectations, making us the best of the bad today. What today's report did imply was that the trend over the past several weeks is true and, in our view, the market correctly sees the balance as too tight (not loose enough) to fully ensure the 3.5 Tcf end-october inventory level it seems to desire. Our error today really came down to two major storage facilities that tend to, in weeks other than last week, act as bellwethers for the eastern consuming region as a whole reporting sharp increases in injections as the month of June began. Had we ignored what now seems to be either anomalous or erroneous information and simply added the appropriate demand for the loss of a holiday and the increase in cooling degree days, the outcome would have been far closer to the actual. Given that the absolute level of cooling degree days was still relatively light with a few lingering heating degree days as well it appears impressive that power generation demand has hung in the way that it has amid the steady and voluminous return of nuclear capacity. There were also a few hiccups in daily production levels that could have contributed to a slightly lower build than certainly the market was expecting. We have been fairly consistent in pointing out that the implied looseness that can be gleaned from the recent string of storage numbers can t simply be extrapolated across the entire natural gas summer, simply because it would be nearly impossible to maintain that volume of looseness when we get into peak demand periods in July and August. The year-over-year calculation will change going forward also due to the rising production profile from last summer producers would need to add production over the next month just to maintain the spread to last year. We question what a Nymex prompt move from $4.5/MMBtu to $4.75/MMBtu does in terms of demand impact, if anything, but the gas market appears poised to go higher should it be given confirmation of this balance going forward and at least a little bit of weather. Today s 17 (15.29 /day) reported injection and the weather forecast changes this morning pushed our end-october expectation down to just above the 3.4 Tcf level. We have noted in the past but it s probably worth repeating that our expectation builds in a loosening third quarter balance due to our assumption that the market will test higher price levels. A higher-than-expected production profile would likely produce a similar outcome. Were we to assume that the forward curve stays static over the next 21 weeks and production remains relatively close to where it is now, we would likely be looking for an end- October level around 3.3 Tcf. We continuously assess our outlook for 215 fundamentals and price formation as changes in near-term price impact commercial participant behavior and market activity. We would suggest that the larger a move to the upside this summer especially if calendar 215 pricing participates the steeper the backwardation will go. The reasons behind this contention are two-fold: (1) we are assuming that production will increase in the 214-215 winter, which could leave a large springtime overhang should the price rally lead to higher end-october inventories; (2) we are assuming that the exploration and production community, being generally under-hedged for next year relative to history, will step in to sell 215 should it trade up toward $4.5/MMBtu. electricity to increased Mexican exports to burgeoning industrial demand, each of these factors will be growing volumetrically sequentially over the next few years. We continue to see 215 as a transition year one during which we could see a $3 trading range in terms of prompt-month Nymex pricing connecting the supportive storage conditions of 214 to the unknowns of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and mercury standards-driven coal-fired retirements of 216 and beyond. There is clearly a school of thought in the marketplace that domestic production will easily cover every molecule of demand that can be drummed up, but we tend to view things through the prism of likeliest path and potential risks. It is not at all clear to us how much capital expenditure budgets will expand in dry gas basins at each incrementally higher gas price or oil price, for that matter but there are clearly operational, environmental, and deliverability risks involved in meeting an ever-growing baseload demand level. The upstream community will add growing volumes from associated plays, but the lion's share of gas production additions will continue to be drawn from the Marcellus and Utica Shales. We are assuming that this past winter offered a preview of physical and financial price volatility that will be the norm in 216 and beyond where higher highs and lower lows will always be in play due to growing baseload demand, production and weather sensitivity. Exhibit 2: Working gas storage volumes Total Week Ending East West Producing Lower-48 6-Jun-14 72 282 64 166 3-May -14 655 269 575 1499 Week Chg. +65 +13 +29 +17 Exhibit 3: Volumes versus historical Total Week Ending East West Producing Lower-48 6-Jun-14 +65 +13 +29 +17 5-Yr Max +67 +18 +28 +16 5-Yr Min +43 +13 +11 +67 5-Yr Mean +54 +15 +21 +89 Exhibit 4: Week changes versus historical Total Week Ending East West Producing Lower-48 6-Jun-14 72 282 64 1,66 Year Ago 125 49 913 2,347 5-Yr Max 146 436 112 2,944 5-Yr Mean 1126 388 961 2,475 5-Yr Min 96 289 896 2,187 A significant number of the supportive market factors that are driving the current market psychology will only grow more supportive in more deferred tenors. From the replacement of coal-fired power generation with gas-fired 2

12 June 214 Exhibit 5: Natural gas storage versus price $/MMBtu $15 $13 $11 $9 $7 $5 $3 $1-12 -1-8 -6-4 -2 2 4 6 8 1 Pre-27 27-present 6-Jun-14 Deferred risks changing but staying the same Since the start of the calendar year, much of the attention of US natural gas market participants has been paid to the impending issue of refilling storage this injection season and the necessary or resulting short-term price formation. However, there have been developments in recent weeks involving several of the deferred risk factors we track that are beginning to impact and will progressively further impact on the natural gas supply and demand balance. Environmental Regulations: On June 2, 214, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed guidelines to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants. The rule, dubbed the Clean Power Plan (CPP), would be enforced under a state-federal partnership with each individual state creating its own plan of action to meet the goals set forth by the proposal. These state plans are due by June 216. The day this rule was announced, the deferred portion of the curve strengthened mildly likely due to the perceived supportive nature of the rule. Similar to the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) requiring the reduction of mercury emissions and the former Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) requiring the reduction of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions, power generators will have to find the most economic manner to achieve the reduction of carbon whether it be through retirements of existing plants or the installation of scrubbers. The strength in the deferred portion of the Nymex forward curve has persisted with the constructive data point released today. We are mildly surprised that a carbon emission rule put forth by EPA would generate willingness to hold length in calendar strip 216 and beyond insofar that there are environmental regulations already in place that suggest a very similar demand story. Though, the range-bound movement of price at the front of the curve, limited participation from producers and consumers in the intermediate portion, and the overall constructive narrative for demand from LNG exports, industrial consumption, and power generation demand likely made the relatively illiquid deferred tenors as a more reasonable manner to express length in the natural gas market. carbon emissions. The decision to vacate CSAPR was overturned by the US Supreme Court on April 29, 214. Deferred Production Outlook: Pinning down a production estimate for this summer injection period has proven quite challenging, so we obviously view the attempt to forecast the US natural gas production level five years from now to be a near-futile exercise, especially since today s current natural gas production profile is rapidly changing with the newfound shale oil revolution. However, on a more granular level, we are able to take cues from the producer community and its longer-dated strategic planning. While the Marcellus will likely continue to be the shale play with high yearly growth rates for the foreseeable future despite depressed physical price in the region, producers have boasted about relatively high rates of returns on wells in the Marcellus it appears that producers have not completely abandoned drilling projects and investments in dry gas basins for the more lucrative liquids-rich plays. Recently, a major producer with acreage in the Haynesville and Fayetteville announced increased long-term investments in the Haynesville while also resuming its drilling program in the Fayetteville on wells under joint venture agreements. Even as the front of the futures curve nears $4.75/MMBtu, there has been little change in allocations of capital expenditure in 215. Calendar strip 215 is currently $4.38/MMBtu. However, with producers still looking toward dry gas basins, our current forecasts of production declines in those basins could be tempered. We will continue to watch if this is a singular event or if a trend develops. LNG Exports: On May 29, 214, the US Department of Energy (DOE) proposed changes to the approval process for LNG exports. Currently, DOE grants conditional authorization to export LNG to non-free Trade Agreement (FTA) countries with the application advancing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for environmental approval. Once FERC approval has been received the application will go back to the DOE for final approval. As of today, only one application has received final approval, Sabine Pass. DOE proposes to streamline the application process by receiving environmental approval prior to the DOE evaluating whether the facility is in the interest of the American people, the key determinant for approval. Additionally, DOE has also announced plans to conduct another economic study regarding the impact of LNG exports on natural gas price and the nation as a whole. The first study only evaluated 6 /day-12 /day of export capacity while as of today, final and conditional approvals for export to non-fta countries sums to ~5.5 /day -- while more than 3 applications are currently pending approval in the DOE queue. The change in the approval process and the new economic study has done little to change our view regarding LNG exports out as far as 22. Sabine Pass is already under construction and we could see FERC approval for at least 2 more facilities by the end of this year. Though, we acknowledge that forecasting government behavior is as futile as production five years out. Our current outlook is the US will likely export 3+ /day of LNG of the 5-6 /day capacity with conditional approval by 22. The introduction of CPP has done little to change our estimates for demand growth in the power generation sector at this time based on the assumption that solutions for mercury, sulfur dioxide, or nitrogen oxide emission reductions, which we use in as our current base for deferred power generation demand, will likely already incorporate management of 3

12 June 214 Exhibit 6: Total US natural gas storage (volume) 4,5 4, 3,5 3, 2,5 2, 1,5 1, 5 Five-Year Range Five-Year Average 211-13 Exhibit 9: Eastern consuming region storage (volume) 2,5 2, 1,5 1, 5 Five-Year Range Five-Year Average 211-13 Exhibit 7: Producing region storage (volume) 1,4 1,2 1, 8 6 4 2 Five-Year Range Five-Year Average 211-13 Exhibit 8: Natural gas storage change versus degree days 3 2 1-1 -2-3 -4 y = -1.5782x + 176.97 R² =.9447 June 6, 214 Degree Day s 5 1 15 2 25 3 Exhibit 1: Western consuming region storage (volume) 6 5 4 3 2 1 Five-Year Range Five-Year Average 211-13 Exhibit 11: Henry Hub cash spread to Nymex natural gas futures $/MMBtu 1.25.75.25 -.25 -.75-1.25 Oct-12 Jan-13 Apr-13 Jul-13 Oct-13 Jan-14 Apr-14 Source: Bloomberg, JPMorgan Natural Gas Research 4

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