BASIS DIFFERENTIAL

The contrast between the cash spot price and the Henry Hub spot price for natural gas in a designated place. The place that operates as the authorized shipment area for New Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) futures contracts is the Henry Hub pipeline, that can be found in Erath, Louisiana.The agreement amount at the Henry Hub are employed as basis for the natural gas market in North America. When buying and selling natural gas, the dissimilarity between the particular location's price – called the basis price and the Henry Hub price is describe as the quoted price. The one that has relation to two different locations is called basis position which are the separate location's price and the Henry Hub price. On the other hand, the one that discuss about the manifestation to the price of gas at one location only is called an actual position or "all in price".