Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending September 25, 2020 | Released: October 1, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 8, 2020
| 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 (09/25/19) |
5-year average (2015-19) |
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| Region | 09/25/20 | 09/18/20 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 872 | 851 | 21 | 21 | 817 | 6.7 | 827 | 5.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 1,033 | 1,009 | 24 | 24 | 962 | 7.4 | 946 | 9.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 231 | 225 | 6 | 6 | 198 | 16.7 | 205 | 12.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 316 | 312 | 4 | 4 | 290 | 9.0 | 306 | 3.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,304 | 1,283 | 21 | 21 | 1,020 | 27.8 | 1,065 | 22.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 358 | 349 | 9 | 9 | 216 | 65.7 | 259 | 38.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 945 | 934 | 11 | 11 | 804 | 17.5 | 806 | 17.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,756 | 3,680 | 76 | 76 | 3,285 | 14.3 | 3,351 | 12.1 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,756 Bcf as of Friday, September 25, 2020, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 76 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 471 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 405 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,351 Bcf.
At 3,756 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 2015 through 2019. 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 | 09/25/20 | 09/18/20 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||||||||