Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending July 23, 2021 | Released: July 29, 2021 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: August 5, 2021
| 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 (07/23/20) |
5-year average (2016-20) |
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| Region | 07/23/21 | 07/16/21 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 583 | 562 | 21 | 21 | 704 | -17.2 | 636 | -8.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 702 | 683 | 19 | 19 | 813 | -13.7 | 715 | -1.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 184 | 183 | 1 | 1 | 195 | -5.6 | 181 | 1.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 246 | 247 | -1 | -1 | 313 | -21.4 | 289 | -14.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 999 | 1,002 | -3 | -3 | 1,212 | -17.6 | 1,060 | -5.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 269 | 279 | -10 | -10 | 340 | -20.9 | 283 | -4.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 729 | 723 | 6 | 6 | 872 | -16.4 | 776 | -6.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,714 | 2,678 | 36 | 36 | 3,237 | -16.2 | 2,882 | -5.8 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,714 Bcf as of Friday, July 23, 2021, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 36 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 523 Bcf less than last year at this time and 168 Bcf below the five-year average of 2,882 Bcf.
At 2,714 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 2016 through 2020. 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 | 07/23/21 | 07/16/21 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.7 | 1.7 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.7 | ||||||||