Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending April 19, 2024 | Released: April 25, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: May 2, 2024
| 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 (04/19/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 04/19/24 | 04/12/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 408 | 379 | 29 | 29 | 382 | 6.8 | 319 | 27.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 551 | 528 | 23 | 23 | 463 | 19.0 | 391 | 40.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 173 | 167 | 6 | 6 | 88 | 96.6 | 93 | 86.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 235 | 230 | 5 | 5 | 88 | 167.0 | 164 | 43.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,057 | 1,029 | 28 | 28 | 965 | 9.5 | 803 | 31.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 309 | 300 | 9 | 9 | 272 | 13.6 | 249 | 24.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 749 | 729 | 20 | 20 | 692 | 8.2 | 553 | 35.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,425 | 2,333 | 92 | 92 | 1,986 | 22.1 | 1,770 | 37.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,425 Bcf as of Friday, April 19, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 92 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 439 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 655 Bcf above the five-year average of 1,770 Bcf.
At 2,425 Bcf, total working gas is above 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 2019 through 2023. 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 | 04/19/24 | 04/12/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.8 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.2 | ||||||||