Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending October 3, 2025 | Released: October 9, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 16, 2025
| 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 (10/03/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
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| Region | 10/03/25 | 09/26/25 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 860 | 832 | 28 | 28 | 869 | -1.0 | 842 | 2.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 1,001 | 972 | 29 | 29 | 1,037 | -3.5 | 1,004 | -0.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 275 | 269 | 6 | 6 | 286 | -3.8 | 232 | 18.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 304 | 302 | 2 | 2 | 293 | 3.8 | 277 | 9.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,201 | 1,186 | 15 | 15 | 1,133 | 6.0 | 1,129 | 6.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 295 | 292 | 3 | 3 | 272 | 8.5 | 280 | 5.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 906 | 894 | 12 | 12 | 861 | 5.2 | 849 | 6.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,641 | 3,561 | 80 | 80 | 3,618 | 0.6 | 3,484 | 4.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,641 Bcf as of Friday, October 3, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 80 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 23 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 157 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,484 Bcf.
At 3,641 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 2020 through 2024. 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 | 10/03/25 | 09/26/25 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 3.2 | 3.2 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||||||||