Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 15, 2020 | Released: May 21, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: May 28, 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 (05/15/19) |
5-year average (2015-19) |
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| Region | 05/15/20 | 05/08/20 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 469 | 452 | 17 | 17 | 346 | 35.5 | 376 | 24.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 576 | 554 | 22 | 22 | 356 | 61.8 | 432 | 33.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 124 | 117 | 7 | 7 | 87 | 42.5 | 129 | -3.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 253 | 240 | 13 | 13 | 183 | 38.3 | 246 | 2.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,081 | 1,059 | 22 | 22 | 753 | 43.6 | 913 | 18.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 345 | 340 | 5 | 5 | 246 | 40.2 | 286 | 20.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 737 | 719 | 18 | 18 | 507 | 45.4 | 627 | 17.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,503 | 2,422 | 81 | 81 | 1,724 | 45.2 | 2,096 | 19.4 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,503 Bcf as of Friday, May 15, 2020, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 81 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 779 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 407 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,096 Bcf.
At 2,503 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 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 | 05/15/20 | 05/08/20 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | ||||||||