20-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 20-month forward price of natural gas stood at 3.177 USD/MMBtu on 28 August 2026, compared to 3.198 on 27 August 2026. This marks a reduction of 0.66 percent.
Sample. There are 3,825 observations overall in the daily time series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series extends from January 2012 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: the forward price achieved a maximum of 6.304 USD/MMBtu on 10 June 2022; it reached a minimum of 2.260 on 5 February 2020; it was equal on average to 3.439.
Latest values
| Date | Value - USD/MMBtu |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-26 | 3.175 |
| 2026-08-27 | 3.198 |
| 2026-08-28 | 3.177 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | 20-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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