By Timothy Puko Natural gas futures closed higher Thursday, after data showed U.S. storage levels fell further than expected last week. The front-month February contract settled up 5.6 cents, or 2%, at $2.927 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It was only the sixth session of gains in the past 17. Storage levels shrank by 131 billion cubic feet in the week ended Jan. 2, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said. The drain was 12 bcf greater than the 119-bcf consensus average of 20 forecasters surveyed by The Wall Street Journal. John Kilduff, founding partner of Again Capital in New York, said he is going to buy, but that his move would be limited. Frigid weather around the country this week should push prices above $3/mmBtu soon, but production is so strong and the risk of a collapsing market is still so great that […]