Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 10, 2024 | Released: May 16, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: May 23, 2024
| 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 (05/10/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 05/10/24 | 05/03/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 482 | 454 | 28 | 28 | 448 | 7.6 | 375 | 28.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 606 | 584 | 22 | 22 | 513 | 18.1 | 446 | 35.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 196 | 191 | 5 | 5 | 110 | 78.2 | 109 | 79.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 252 | 246 | 6 | 6 | 123 | 104.9 | 193 | 30.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,097 | 1,087 | 10 | 10 | 1,017 | 7.9 | 890 | 23.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 313 | 314 | -1 | -1 | 289 | 8.3 | 278 | 12.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 784 | 773 | 11 | 11 | 729 | 7.5 | 612 | 28.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,633 | 2,563 | 70 | 70 | 2,212 | 19.0 | 2,013 | 30.8 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,633 Bcf as of Friday, May 10, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 70 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 421 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 620 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,013 Bcf.
At 2,633 Bcf, total working gas is above 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 2019 through 2023. 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 | 05/10/24 | 05/03/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.2 | ||||||||