Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending October 18, 2024 | Released: October 24, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 31, 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 (10/18/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 10/18/24 | 10/11/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 901 | 893 | 8 | 8 | 905 | -0.4 | 884 | 1.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 1,088 | 1,067 | 21 | 21 | 1,068 | 1.9 | 1,056 | 3.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 291 | 287 | 4 | 4 | 251 | 15.9 | 223 | 30.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 300 | 293 | 7 | 7 | 282 | 6.4 | 281 | 6.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,205 | 1,166 | 39 | 39 | 1,173 | 2.7 | 1,174 | 2.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 314 | 293 | 21 | 21 | 295 | 6.4 | 298 | 5.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 891 | 872 | 19 | 19 | 879 | 1.4 | 876 | 1.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,785 | 3,705 | 80 | 80 | 3,679 | 2.9 | 3,618 | 4.6 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,785 Bcf as of Friday, October 18, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 80 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 106 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 167 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,618 Bcf.
At 3,785 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 | 10/18/24 | 10/11/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.6 | 1.7 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | ||||||||