Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending October 17, 2025 | Released: October 23, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 30, 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 (10/17/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
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| Region | 10/17/25 | 10/10/25 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 899 | 883 | 16 | 16 | 900 | -0.1 | 883 | 1.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 1,060 | 1,031 | 29 | 29 | 1,083 | -2.1 | 1,057 | 0.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 282 | 279 | 3 | 3 | 290 | -2.8 | 239 | 18.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 311 | 307 | 4 | 4 | 301 | 3.3 | 282 | 10.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,255 | 1,221 | 34 | 34 | 1,199 | 4.7 | 1,184 | 6.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 320 | 303 | 17 | 17 | 309 | 3.6 | 305 | 4.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 935 | 918 | 17 | 17 | 890 | 5.1 | 880 | 6.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,808 | 3,721 | 87 | 87 | 3,774 | 0.9 | 3,644 | 4.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,808 Bcf as of Friday, October 17, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 87 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 34 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 164 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,644 Bcf.
At 3,808 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 | 10/17/25 | 10/10/25 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 3.1 | 3.2 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.2 | ||||||||