By Claudia Assis
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Natural-gas futures turned higher Thursday after a weekly government report showed a supply increase in the lower end of expectations. Natural gas for August delivery NGQ12 +0.03% added 2 cents, or 0.5%, to $2.99 per million British thermal units. It had traded around $2.93 per million Btus moments before the data. The Energy Information Administration reported an increase of 28 billion cubic feet in natural gas in storage for the week ended July 13. Analysts polled by Platts had expected a rise between 28 billion cubic feet and 32 bcf.
