At Bentek Energy's Benposium 2013, the Motley Fool's Tom Jacobs spoke with research analyst and human computer, Eason Jostad. In command of data and with trenchant analysis, he makes Bentek's contrarian case for natural gas prices to lower through the summer. This analysis is based on unusual wellhead freezing that reduced production in areas where producers didn't see it coming. Bentek's ahead of the curve, and Jostad tells us what Bentek's forecast for 2013 pricing is and why.
Reduced production caused prices to rise, but that is likely a one-time event.
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Tom Jacobs is the Lead Advisor for Motley Fool Special Ops, a premium investment service specializing in event-driven value situations such as spinoffs. He is the co-author of What's Behind the Numbers? A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio (McGraw-Hill), rated the best investment book of the year by Stock Trader's Almanac . Influenced by parents educated and working in the Great Depression, he demands a margin of safety from stocks and always has a small part of his portfolio hedged to survive the outlier events (aka, Big Ones). A Fool since 1999, Tom firmly believes that dogs are people with fur.
