Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending December 27, 2024 | Released: January 3, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: January 8, 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 (12/27/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 12/27/24 | 12/20/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 745 | 792 | -47 | -47 | 801 | -7.0 | 771 | -3.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 914 | 960 | -46 | -46 | 973 | -6.1 | 922 | -0.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 262 | 267 | -5 | -5 | 229 | 14.4 | 188 | 39.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 295 | 293 | 2 | 2 | 280 | 5.4 | 242 | 21.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,197 | 1,217 | -20 | -20 | 1,197 | 0.0 | 1,135 | 5.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 349 | 349 | 0 | 0 | 340 | 2.6 | 323 | 8.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 848 | 868 | -20 | -20 | 857 | -1.1 | 812 | 4.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,413 | 3,529 | -116 | -116 | 3,480 | -1.9 | 3,259 | 4.7 | |||||||||||||||||
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Notice: All federal offices will be closed on Thursday, January 9, 2025, in accordance with the National Day of Mourning, honoring President James Earl Carter, Jr. As a result, we will release the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report at noon, on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,413 Bcf as of Friday, December 27, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 116 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 67 Bcf less than last year at this time and 154 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,259 Bcf.
At 3,413 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 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 | 12/27/24 | 12/20/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 2.4 | 2.5 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.1 | ||||||||