Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 23, 2025 | Released: May 29, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: June 5, 2025
| Working gas in underground storage, Lower 48 states Summary text CSV JSN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical Comparisons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stocks billion cubic feet (Bcf) |
Year ago (05/23/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||
| Region | 05/23/25 | 05/16/25 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 462 | 432 | 30 | 30 | 534 | -13.5 | 455 | 1.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 541 | 512 | 29 | 29 | 657 | -17.7 | 549 | -1.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 198 | 192 | 6 | 6 | 209 | -5.3 | 145 | 36.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 254 | 244 | 10 | 10 | 266 | -4.5 | 226 | 12.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,021 | 996 | 25 | 25 | 1,127 | -9.4 | 1,008 | 1.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 328 | 321 | 7 | 7 | 324 | 1.2 | 304 | 7.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 693 | 674 | 19 | 19 | 802 | -13.6 | 704 | -1.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,476 | 2,375 | 101 | 101 | 2,792 | -11.3 | 2,383 | 3.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,476 Bcf as of Friday, May 23, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 101 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 316 Bcf less than last year at this time and 93 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,383 Bcf.
At 2,476 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) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient of Variation for Stocks % of working gas |
Standard Error for Net Change billion cubic feet (Bcf) |
||||||||||
| Region | 05/23/25 | 05/16/25 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | ||||||||