Front-month gas futures fell 7 cents, or 2.7%, to $2.569 per million British thermal units.
After utilities started injecting gas into storage in late March, which was earlier than usual, speculators cut their net long positions on the New York Mercantile (NYMEX) and Intercontinental Exchanges for a sixth time in a row last week to their lowest since July 2020.
Spending on greener products including wind, solar, geothermal and hydrogen power will expand "significantly year on year," Dai said, without giving detail.
He said the next five-to-10 years would be "the window for energy transitions" and the company was working on precise timelines.
That small price decline came despite record liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports and forecasts for colder weather and higher than previously expected heating demand this week.
The amount of gas flowing to US LNG export plants, meanwhile, has averaged 10.4 bcfd so far in March.
If correct, last week's decrease would cut stockpiles to 1.807 trillion cubic feet (tcf), which would be 10.7% below the five-year average of 2.023 tcf for this time of year.
Front-month gas futures fell 3 cents, or 1.1%, to $2.786 per million British thermal units.
The Jebel Ali complex of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has been recognized as the largest single-site natural gas power generation facility in the world.