Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending August 15, 2025 | Released: August 21, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: August 28, 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 (08/15/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
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| Region | 08/15/25 | 08/08/25 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 690 | 677 | 13 | 13 | 733 | -5.9 | 689 | 0.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 812 | 796 | 16 | 16 | 885 | -8.2 | 812 | 0.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 255 | 253 | 2 | 2 | 263 | -3.0 | 203 | 25.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 301 | 305 | -4 | -4 | 288 | 4.5 | 265 | 13.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,141 | 1,154 | -13 | -13 | 1,125 | 1.4 | 1,055 | 8.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 282 | 295 | -13 | -13 | 281 | 0.4 | 261 | 8.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 859 | 859 | 0 | 0 | 844 | 1.8 | 795 | 8.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,199 | 3,186 | 13 | 13 | 3,294 | -2.9 | 3,025 | 5.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,199 Bcf as of Friday, August 15, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 13 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 95 Bcf less than last year at this time and 174 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,025 Bcf.
At 3,199 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 | 08/15/25 | 08/08/25 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 2.6 | 2.5 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ||||||||