Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 9, 2025 | Released: May 15, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: May 22, 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 (05/09/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
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| Region | 05/09/25 | 05/02/25 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 396 | 362 | 34 | 34 | 478 | -17.2 | 402 | -1.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 480 | 454 | 26 | 26 | 610 | -21.3 | 498 | -3.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 185 | 180 | 5 | 5 | 195 | -5.1 | 131 | 41.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 237 | 232 | 5 | 5 | 251 | -5.6 | 208 | 13.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 957 | 917 | 40 | 40 | 1,096 | -12.7 | 960 | -0.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 308 | 293 | 15 | 15 | 313 | -1.6 | 292 | 5.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 648 | 624 | 24 | 24 | 782 | -17.1 | 668 | -3.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,255 | 2,145 | 110 | 110 | 2,630 | -14.3 | 2,198 | 2.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,255 Bcf as of Friday, May 9, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 110 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 375 Bcf less than last year at this time and 57 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,198 Bcf.
At 2,255 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 | 05/09/25 | 05/02/25 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ||||||||