Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending April 12, 2024 | Released: April 18, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: April 25, 2024
| 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 (04/12/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 04/12/24 | 04/05/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 379 | 362 | 17 | 17 | 358 | 5.9 | 307 | 23.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 528 | 512 | 16 | 16 | 443 | 19.2 | 380 | 38.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 167 | 165 | 2 | 2 | 83 | 101.2 | 90 | 85.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 230 | 229 | 1 | 1 | 80 | 187.5 | 158 | 45.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,029 | 1,014 | 15 | 15 | 943 | 9.1 | 775 | 32.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 300 | 299 | 1 | 1 | 265 | 13.2 | 238 | 26.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 729 | 714 | 15 | 15 | 679 | 7.4 | 537 | 35.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,333 | 2,283 | 50 | 50 | 1,909 | 22.2 | 1,711 | 36.4 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,333 Bcf as of Friday, April 12, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 50 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 424 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 622 Bcf above the five-year average of 1,711 Bcf.
At 2,333 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 2019 through 2023. 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 | 04/12/24 | 04/05/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | ||||||||