Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 16, 2025 | Released: May 22, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: May 29, 2025
| Working gas in underground storage, Lower 48 states Summary text CSV JSN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Historical Comparisons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stocks billion cubic feet (Bcf) |
Year ago (05/16/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
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| Region | 05/16/25 | 05/09/25 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 432 | 396 | 36 | 36 | 507 | -14.8 | 426 | 1.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 512 | 480 | 32 | 32 | 632 | -19.0 | 521 | -1.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 192 | 185 | 7 | 7 | 201 | -4.5 | 137 | 40.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 244 | 237 | 7 | 7 | 258 | -5.4 | 217 | 12.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 996 | 957 | 39 | 39 | 1,110 | -10.3 | 983 | 1.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 321 | 308 | 13 | 13 | 318 | 0.9 | 298 | 7.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 674 | 648 | 26 | 26 | 792 | -14.9 | 685 | -1.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,375 | 2,255 | 120 | 120 | 2,708 | -12.3 | 2,285 | 3.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,375 Bcf as of Friday, May 16, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 120 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 333 Bcf less than last year at this time and 90 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,285 Bcf.
At 2,375 Bcf, total working gas is within the five-year historical range.
For information on sampling error in this report, see Estimated Measures of Sampling Variability table below.
Note: The shaded area indicates the range between the historical minimum and maximum values for the weekly series from 2020 through 2024. The dashed vertical lines indicate current and year-ago weekly periods.
| Estimated measures of sampling variabilityDownload History (April 2015 to Present) | |||||||||||
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| Coefficient of Variation for Stocks % of working gas |
Standard Error for Net Change billion cubic feet (Bcf) |
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| Region | 05/16/25 | 05/09/25 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ||||||||