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Ben Smith

@firstenercast

Founder of Enercast | Natural gas pipeline intelligence

 Denver, Colorado
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Joined December 2009
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#natgas flow data now FREE to everyone! #enercast
Enercast (@Enercast_com) profile pictureEnercast
@Enercast_comSep 14
BIG update to Enercast — pipeline flow data is now live! Tracking 16,000+ active meter points across ~ 200 U.S. natural gas pipelines. Critical notices + real-time flow data in one place. Most of it free. Pro subs get flows & notices in real-time #NatGas #EnergyTrading
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'big agreement that involves Europe' unlikely to include #natgas only 4% chance of nord stream returning
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Polymarket (@Polymarket) profile picturePolymarket
@PolymarketNov 5
JUST IN: Trump meets with Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev at the White House, teasing a "big agreement" that could involve all of Europe.
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normal start of month noms, or eqt curtailment?
Enercast (@Enercast_com) profile pictureEnercast
@Enercast_comNov 5
Record October for U.S. #natgas supply. Then Nov 1 happened: −3.26 Bcf/d in one day. Nearly all of it in two basins: Appalachia and Haynesville. Our pipeline data, by basin, and what $EQT told investors 👇 enercast.com/news/supply-dro…
U.S. gas supply drops 2.6 Bcf/d into November as Appalachia and Haynesville pull back | Enercast...

U.S. gas supply drops 2.6 Bcf/d into November as Appalachia and Haynesville pull back | Enercast...

U.S. natural gas pipeline receipts fell from a record October to 66.8 Bcf/d in early November, led by Appalachia (-1.71 Bcf/d) and Haynesville (-0.76). EQT's Q3 release cites strategic curtailments....

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we will now be posting articles when we see something interesting in the data we collect/publish..... #enercast #natgas
Enercast (@Enercast_com) profile pictureEnercast
@Enercast_comNov 5
U.S. LNG feedgas sets an October record at 18.4 Bcf/d #natgas #OOTT enercast.com/news/lng-feedga…
U.S. LNG feedgas sets an October record at 18.4 Bcf/d | Enercast Pipeline News

U.S. LNG feedgas sets an October record at 18.4 Bcf/d | Enercast Pipeline News

U.S. LNG feedgas averaged a record 18.40 Bcf/d in October 2026, up 2.1 Bcf/d from October 2025, with a one-day high of 19.76 Bcf/d on Oct. 18. Terminal-by-terminal data from Enercast.

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let's have a moment of silence for colorado #natgas
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two very different pictures emerging across European #natgas storage: 🟢 doing fine: Poland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Romania, France, Denmark, Bulgaria and Croatia. 🔴 not looking so good: Ukraine, UK, Latvia, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Austria.
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Ira Joseph (@ira_joseph) profile pictureIra Joseph
@ira_josephNov 1
Europe enters withdrawal season with enough gas to cover the next five months. Barely. Average draws will be easily covered. While overall gas demand has plummetted since Russia invaded Ukraine, peak demand periods tied to weather are still a major risk. @ColumbiaUEnergy
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posted pipe maintenance schedule gets a lot lighter starting this wkend. .....had a lot of unplanned outages recently. #natgas
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view the #natgas pipeline maintenance schedule here: enercast.com/calendar/
Pipeline Capacity Offline Calendar | Enercast

Pipeline Capacity Offline Calendar | Enercast

Natural gas pipeline capacity offline today in Bcf/d: force majeure, maintenance and compressor outages, what returned and what is next, from posted notices.

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working #natgas storage 🚀 .........after a lost decade
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here's the list i have. nearly ALL salt, and all in TX/LA/MS
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thank you to everyone who’s sent feedback🙏 all three of these came directly from it #natgas #enercast
Enercast (@Enercast_com) profile pictureEnercast
@Enercast_comOct 25
New on Enercast: 1. Capacity Offline section 2. Easier critical notice layout 3. Educational How It Works hub #natgas #oott
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we picked up 23 hdd since yesterday, but overall 🤮
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#natgas opex tues. max pain $3.25
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this one crashed the server? TCO posted a Force Majeure update on MXP Line-100 at 7:19 AM CT today. immediately, TC Energy's notice portal started returning 503/504 errors — overwhelmed as everyone pulled the same notice at once. full text wasn't retrievable until ~7:45 CT.
Enercast (@Enercast_com) profile pictureEnercast
@Enercast_comOct 16
TCO is estimating a return to service for Gas Day Saturday October 17, 2026. #natgas #oott
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Gazprom flex & pop shot at Europe
Gazprom (@GazpromEN) profile pictureGazprom@GazpromENOct 15
Gazprom being ready to provide reliable gas supplies to consumers in 2026–2027 autumn/winter period gazprom.com/press/news/2026/…
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not really seeing the same size reductions on TCO as we did on the Sep24th outage
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our pro users got this alert in under 1-minute.....
Enercast (@Enercast_com) profile pictureEnercast
@Enercast_comOct 14
TCO force majeure on MXP Line-100 eliminates 1.9 Bcf/d of Appalachian firm transport capacity to zero effective Oct 15 evening cycle. Very bullish Dom South, TETCO M2, and downstream Mid-Atlantic basis. Bearish pressure at trapped Appalachian receipt points. #natgas #oott
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TCO ....again. .....if you aren't subscribed to our Pro alerts, it's costing you
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el niño winter... ecmwf winter gas-weighted HDD forecast totals are -80 from the 10yr avg and -51 from last winter
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forecast warm winter bias by month
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it'll keep getting faster, and the service keeps getting better. .....more soon
Enercast (@Enercast_com) profile pictureEnercast
@Enercast_comOct 13
We've been quietly optimizing Enercast's parsers and backend for months. A full cycle — detection to detailed AI analysis in your inbox — now averages 82 seconds. Force majeure declared. Compressor down. Capacity cut. —you will know in in just over a minute. #natgas #oott
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