CME/Nymex July gas futures gained 11.9￠ to close at $4.916/MMBtu.

摘要

Prices opened at $4.841 and initially fell to an intraday low of $4.66 before a large dose of buying triggered short covering activity. Prices climbed to intraday high of $4.937 during the last few minutes of trading. Part of today's bullishness came after a crew drilling a natural gas well through an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle hit a pocket of methane gas that ignited, triggering an explosion that burned seven workers.