Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending March 8, 2019 | Released: March 14, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: March 21, 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 (03/08/18) |
5-year average (2014-18) |
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| Region | 03/08/19 | 03/01/19 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 262 | 311 | -49 | -49 | 320 | -18.1 | 338 | -22.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 287 | 338 | -51 | -51 | 354 | -18.9 | 398 | -27.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 66 | 73 | -7 | -7 | 94 | -29.8 | 116 | -43.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 102 | 112 | -10 | -10 | 170 | -40.0 | 199 | -48.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 469 | 557 | -88 | -88 | 607 | -22.7 | 705 | -33.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 129 | 180 | -51 | -51 | 186 | -30.6 | 195 | -33.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 340 | 377 | -37 | -37 | 420 | -19.0 | 510 | -33.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 1,186 | 1,390 | -204 | -204 | 1,545 | -23.2 | 1,755 | -32.4 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 1,186 Bcf as of Friday, March 8, 2019, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 204 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 359 Bcf less than last year at this time and 569 Bcf below the five-year average of 1,755 Bcf.
At 1,186 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 | 03/08/19 | 03/01/19 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.0 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.9 | ||||||||
| Salt | 3.2 | 2.5 | 0.8 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.4 | ||||||||