Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 3, 2024 | Released: May 9, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: May 16, 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 (05/03/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 05/03/24 | 04/26/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 454 | 425 | 29 | 29 | 419 | 8.4 | 351 | 29.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 584 | 564 | 20 | 20 | 492 | 18.7 | 424 | 37.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 191 | 182 | 9 | 9 | 101 | 89.1 | 103 | 85.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 246 | 240 | 6 | 6 | 110 | 123.6 | 182 | 35.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,087 | 1,073 | 14 | 14 | 995 | 9.2 | 862 | 26.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 314 | 314 | 0 | 0 | 284 | 10.6 | 271 | 15.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 773 | 759 | 14 | 14 | 710 | 8.9 | 591 | 30.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,563 | 2,484 | 79 | 79 | 2,119 | 21.0 | 1,923 | 33.3 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,563 Bcf as of Friday, May 3, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 79 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 444 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 640 Bcf above the five-year average of 1,923 Bcf.
At 2,563 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 | 05/03/24 | 04/26/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.2 | 1.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ||||||||