Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending January 20, 2023 | Released: January 26, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: February 2, 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 (01/20/22) |
5-year average (2018-22) |
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| Region | 01/20/23 | 01/13/23 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 622 | 662 | -40 | -40 | 618 | 0.6 | 609 | 2.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 749 | 785 | -36 | -36 | 711 | 5.3 | 716 | 4.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 140 | 147 | -7 | -7 | 144 | -2.8 | 145 | -3.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 150 | 157 | -7 | -7 | 201 | -25.4 | 221 | -32.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,067 | 1,069 | -2 | -2 | 950 | 12.3 | 909 | 17.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 310 | 307 | 3 | 3 | 283 | 9.5 | 266 | 16.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 757 | 762 | -5 | -5 | 666 | 13.7 | 642 | 17.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,729 | 2,820 | -91 | -91 | 2,622 | 4.1 | 2,601 | 4.9 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,729 Bcf as of Friday, January 20, 2023, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 91 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 107 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 128 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,601 Bcf.
At 2,729 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 | 01/20/23 | 01/13/23 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | ||||||||