Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending February 7, 2020 | Released: February 13, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: February 20, 2020
| 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 (02/07/19) |
5-year average (2015-19) |
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| Region | 02/07/20 | 01/31/20 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 569 | 598 | -29 | -29 | 447 | 27.3 | 498 | 14.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 694 | 725 | -31 | -31 | 496 | 39.9 | 587 | 18.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 126 | 136 | -10 | -10 | 96 | 31.3 | 131 | -3.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 202 | 210 | -8 | -8 | 157 | 28.7 | 222 | -9.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 903 | 941 | -38 | -38 | 695 | 29.9 | 841 | 7.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 269 | 281 | -12 | -12 | 247 | 8.9 | 259 | 3.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 634 | 660 | -26 | -26 | 448 | 41.5 | 582 | 8.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,494 | 2,609 | -115 | -115 | 1,893 | 31.7 | 2,279 | 9.4 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,494 Bcf as of Friday, February 7, 2020, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 115 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 601 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 215 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,279 Bcf.
At 2,494 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 2015 through 2019. 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 | 02/07/20 | 01/31/20 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.8 | 1.7 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.9 | ||||||||