Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending November 9, 2018 | Released: November 15, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: November 21, 2018
| 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 (11/09/17) |
5-year average (2013-17) |
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| Region | 11/09/18 | 11/02/18 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 835 | 831 | 4 | 4 | 916 | -8.8 | 920 | -9.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 991 | 980 | 11 | 11 | 1,109 | -10.6 | 1,098 | -9.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 181 | 182 | -1 | -1 | 221 | -18.1 | 219 | -17.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 266 | 265 | 1 | 1 | 315 | -15.6 | 351 | -24.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 974 | 949 | 25 | 25 | 1,214 | -19.8 | 1,259 | -22.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 272 | 253 | 19 | 19 | 340 | -20.0 | 353 | -22.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 702 | 696 | 6 | 6 | 873 | -19.6 | 906 | -22.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,247 | 3,208 | 39 | 39 | 3,775 | -14.0 | 3,848 | -15.6 | |||||||||||||||||
Starting with this week's Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR) release, the WNGSR history file will include a new worksheet showing the net change for each report week. Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding.
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,247 Bcf as of Friday, November 9, 2018, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 39 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 528 Bcf less than last year at this time and 601 Bcf below the five-year average of 3,848 Bcf.
At 3,247 Bcf, total working gas is below 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 2013 through 2017. 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 | 11/09/18 | 11/02/18 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.4 | 1.6 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.9 | 1.9 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | ||||||||