Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending September 26, 2025 | Released: October 2, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 9, 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 (09/26/24) |
5-year average (2020-24) |
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| Region | 09/26/25 | 09/19/25 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 832 | 807 | 25 | 25 | 842 | -1.2 | 815 | 2.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 972 | 945 | 27 | 27 | 1,009 | -3.7 | 973 | -0.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 269 | 266 | 3 | 3 | 282 | -4.6 | 227 | 18.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 302 | 300 | 2 | 2 | 293 | 3.1 | 275 | 9.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,186 | 1,190 | -4 | -4 | 1,113 | 6.6 | 1,101 | 7.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 292 | 299 | -7 | -7 | 261 | 11.9 | 267 | 9.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 894 | 890 | 4 | 4 | 852 | 4.9 | 834 | 7.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,561 | 3,508 | 53 | 53 | 3,540 | 0.6 | 3,390 | 5.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,561 Bcf as of Friday, September 26, 2025, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 53 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 21 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 171 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,390 Bcf.
At 3,561 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 | 09/26/25 | 09/19/25 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 3.2 | 3.1 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | ||||||||