Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending October 5, 2012. | Released: October 11, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 18, 2012
| 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 (10/05/11) |
5-Year average (2007-2011) |
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| Region | 10/05/12 | 09/28/12 | change | (Bcf) | % change | (Bcf) | % change | ||||||||
| East | 2,005 | 1,963 | 42 | 1,920 | 4.4 | 1,938 | 3.5 | ||||||||
| West | 513 | 510 | 3 | 478 | 7.3 | 471 | 8.9 | ||||||||
| Producing | 1,207 | 1,180 | 27 | 1,091 | 10.6 | 1,047 | 15.3 | ||||||||
| Salt | 260 | 245 | 15 | 183 | 42.1 | 148 | 75.7 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 947 | 935 | 12 | 909 | 4.2 | 899 | 5.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 3,725 | 3,653 | 72 | 3,489 | 6.8 | 3,456 | 7.8 | ||||||||
Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,725 Bcf as of Friday, October 5, 2012, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of a net increase of 72 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 236 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 269 Bcf above the 5-year average of 3,456 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 67 Bcf above the 5-year average following net injections of 42 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 160 Bcf above the 5-year average of 1,047 Bcf after a net injection of 27 Bcf. Stocks in the West Region were 42 Bcf above the 5-year average after a net addition of 3 Bcf. At 3,725 Bcf, total working gas is above the 5-year historical range.
Note: The shaded area indicates the range between the historical minimum and maximum values for the weekly series from 2007 through 2011.
Source: Form EIA-912, "Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report." The dashed vertical lines indicate current and year-ago weekly periods.