Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 20, 2022 | Released: May 26, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: June 2, 2022
| 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 (05/20/21) |
5-year average (2017-21) |
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| Region | 05/20/22 | 05/13/22 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 325 | 296 | 29 | 29 | 381 | -14.7 | 388 | -16.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 391 | 364 | 27 | 27 | 495 | -21.0 | 467 | -16.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 109 | 103 | 6 | 6 | 143 | -23.8 | 128 | -14.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 190 | 187 | 3 | 3 | 255 | -25.5 | 235 | -19.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 797 | 781 | 16 | 16 | 925 | -13.8 | 921 | -13.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 251 | 251 | 0 | 0 | 294 | -14.6 | 292 | -14.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 546 | 531 | 15 | 15 | 631 | -13.5 | 630 | -13.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 1,812 | 1,732 | 80 | 80 | 2,199 | -17.6 | 2,139 | -15.3 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 1,812 Bcf as of Friday, May 20, 2022, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 80 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 387 Bcf less than last year at this time and 327 Bcf below the five-year average of 2,139 Bcf.
At 1,812 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 2017 through 2021. 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 | 05/20/22 | 05/13/22 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.8 | ||||||||