Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending March 31, 2023 | Released: April 6, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: April 13, 2023
| 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 (03/31/22) |
5-year average (2018-22) |
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| Region | 03/31/23 | 03/24/23 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 335 | 343 | -8 | -8 | 245 | 36.7 | 274 | 22.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 421 | 437 | -16 | -16 | 299 | 40.8 | 335 | 25.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 80 | 82 | -2 | -2 | 91 | -12.1 | 89 | -10.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 73 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 164 | -55.5 | 169 | -56.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 921 | 917 | 4 | 4 | 588 | 56.6 | 665 | 38.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 263 | 262 | 1 | 1 | 172 | 52.9 | 203 | 29.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 658 | 655 | 3 | 3 | 415 | 58.6 | 462 | 42.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 1,830 | 1,853 | -23 | -23 | 1,387 | 31.9 | 1,532 | 19.5 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 1,830 Bcf as of Friday, March 31, 2023, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 23 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 443 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 298 Bcf above the five-year average of 1,532 Bcf.
At 1,830 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 2018 through 2022. 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 | 03/31/23 | 03/24/23 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ||||||||