Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending January 3, 2025 | Released: January 8, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. | Next Release: January 16, 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 (01/03/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
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| Region | 01/03/25 | 12/27/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 737 | 745 | -8 | -8 | 769 | -4.2 | 745 | -1.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 881 | 914 | -33 | -33 | 937 | -6.0 | 886 | -0.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 255 | 262 | -7 | -7 | 222 | 14.9 | 181 | 40.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 293 | 295 | -2 | -2 | 276 | 6.2 | 235 | 24.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,207 | 1,197 | 10 | 10 | 1,172 | 3.0 | 1,119 | 7.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 364 | 349 | 15 | 15 | 335 | 8.7 | 323 | 12.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 844 | 848 | -4 | -4 | 836 | 1.0 | 797 | 5.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,373 | 3,413 | -40 | -40 | 3,376 | -0.1 | 3,166 | 6.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,373 Bcf as of Friday, January 3, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 40 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 3 Bcf less than last year at this time and 207 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,166 Bcf.
At 3,373 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 | 01/03/25 | 12/27/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 2.4 | 2.4 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.1 | ||||||||