In this note we examine the relationship between the wellhead price of natural gas and institutional changes in the industry and other factors that influence this price. As part of this examination we estimate an equation to summarize the monthly relationship between the price of natural gas at the wellhead and the price of residual fuel oil and other variables between January 1987 and December 1991.
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