Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending September 6, 2019 | Released: September 12, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: September 19, 2019
| 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 (09/06/18) |
5-year average (2014-18) |
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| Region | 09/06/19 | 08/30/19 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 739 | 714 | 25 | 25 | 676 | 9.3 | 756 | -2.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 864 | 827 | 37 | 37 | 729 | 18.5 | 848 | 1.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 183 | 177 | 6 | 6 | 165 | 10.9 | 191 | -4.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 275 | 276 | -1 | -1 | 249 | 10.4 | 303 | -9.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 958 | 947 | 11 | 11 | 805 | 19.0 | 997 | -3.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 199 | 197 | 2 | 2 | 182 | 9.3 | 251 | -20.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 759 | 749 | 10 | 10 | 623 | 21.8 | 746 | 1.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,019 | 2,941 | 78 | 78 | 2,626 | 15.0 | 3,096 | -2.5 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,019 Bcf as of Friday, September 6, 2019, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 78 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 393 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 77 Bcf below the five-year average of 3,096 Bcf.
At 3,019 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 2014 through 2018. 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 | 09/06/19 | 08/30/19 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Salt | 2.4 | 2.4 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||||||||