The nuclear crisis in Japan has been taking most of the attention for natural gas markets, where traders and analysts are speculating that consumption of natural gas will increase from Japan, amid the damage to the Japanese nuclear reactors, in order to generate electricity, and accordingly, they expect prices of natural gas to rise next week.

Thursday, 14:30. The EIA will release the weekly natural gas storage change for the week ending March 18, where the report showed that natural gas inventories declined by 6 billion cubic feet.