18-month forward price of natural gas (USD/MMBtu) - United States - FSR - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: Forward natural gas prices in the US
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In US derivatives markets, the 18-month forward price of natural gas was 3.944 USD/MMBtu on 28 August 2026, versus 4.017 on 27 August. This represents a reduction of 1.82 percent.
Sample. This daily time series has 3,825 data points. The time period covered by the series goes from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: the forward price was equal on average to 3.447 USD/MMBtu; it reached its minimum of 2.212 on 6 March 2020; it reached a maximum of 6.363 on 10 June 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | 4.048 |
| 2026-08-27 | 4.017 |
| 2026-08-28 | 3.944 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 18-month forward price of natural gas |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Forward price |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | USD/MMBtu |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on market data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LD1 |
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