Natural-gas prices shook off early declines Friday and rose in tandem with oil and other energy contracts as Canadian wildfires spread, increasing estimates of lost production. Natural-gas futures were down as much as 1.5% in early trading but rallied as reports said Canada’s wildfires were gaining ground. Natural-gas futures ended the day 1.2% higher at $2.1010 a million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Analysts were raising their estimates of Canadian oil production taken offline by the wildfires spreading in the Albert oil sands region, to as much as 1 million barrels a day. Though reports haven’t yet said oil or gas facilities have been damaged by the fires, oil workers have been evacuated and the operations have been shut down as a precautionary measure. Canada is the largest exporter of oil and natural gas to the U.S., sending in 3.6 million barrels of crude and […]