Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending February 27, 2015 | Released: March 5, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: March 12, 2015
| Working gas in underground storage, lower 48 states Summary text CSV JSN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Stocks billion cubic feet (Bcf) |
Year ago (02/27/14) |
5-Year average (2010-2014) |
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| Region | 02/27/15 | 02/20/15 | net change | implied flow | (Bcf) | % change | (Bcf) | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 722 | 843 | -121 | -121 | 537 | 34.5 | 854 | -15.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| West | 355 | 371 | -16 | -16 | 194 | 83.0 | 286 | 24.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Producing | 633 | 724 | -91 | -91 | 487 | 30.0 | 713 | -11.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 136 | 181 | -45 | -45 | 89 | 52.8 | 134 | 1.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 496 | 542 | -46 | -46 | 398 | 24.6 | 579 | -14.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 1,710 | 1,938 | -228 | -228 | 1,218 | 40.4 | 1,853 | -7.7 | |||||||||||||||||
Summary
Working gas in storage was 1,710 Bcf as of Friday, February 27, 2015, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net decline of 228 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 492 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 143 Bcf below the 5-year average of 1,853 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 132 Bcf below the 5-year average following net withdrawals of 121 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 80 Bcf below the 5-year average of 713 Bcf after a net withdrawal of 91 Bcf. Stocks in the West Region were 69 Bcf above the 5-year average after a net drawdown of 16 Bcf. At 1,710 Bcf, total working gas is within the 5-year historical range.
Note: The shaded area indicates the range between the historical minimum and maximum values for the weekly series from 2010 through 2014.
Source: Form EIA-912, "Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report." The dashed vertical lines indicate current and year-ago weekly periods.