Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending May 17, 2019 | Released: May 23, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: May 30, 2019
| 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 (05/17/18) |
5-year average (2014-18) |
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| Region | 05/17/19 | 05/10/19 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 353 | 330 | 23 | 23 | 296 | 19.3 | 369 | -4.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 364 | 336 | 28 | 28 | 285 | 27.7 | 416 | -12.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 89 | 82 | 7 | 7 | 106 | -16.0 | 131 | -32.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 186 | 174 | 12 | 12 | 212 | -12.3 | 245 | -24.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 762 | 731 | 31 | 31 | 718 | 6.1 | 867 | -12.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 249 | 240 | 9 | 9 | 225 | 10.7 | 266 | -6.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 513 | 491 | 22 | 22 | 493 | 4.1 | 601 | -14.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 1,753 | 1,653 | 100 | 100 | 1,616 | 8.5 | 2,027 | -13.5 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 1,753 Bcf as of Friday, May 17, 2019, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 100 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 137 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 274 Bcf below the five-year average of 2,027 Bcf.
At 1,753 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 2014 through 2018. 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 | 05/17/19 | 05/10/19 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Salt | 2.1 | 2.2 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.1 | ||||||||