Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending January 16, 2015 | Released: January 22, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: January 29, 2015
| Working gas in underground storage, lower 48 states Summary text CSV JSN | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Stocks billion cubic feet (Bcf) |
Year ago (01/16/14) |
5-Year average (2010-2014) |
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| Region | 01/16/15 | 01/09/15 | net change | implied flow | (Bcf) | % change | (Bcf) | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 1,350 | 1,468 | -118 | -118 | 1,197 | 12.8 | 1,425 | -5.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| West | 384 | 400 | -16 | -16 | 351 | 9.4 | 391 | -1.8 | |||||||||||||||||
| Producing | 903 | 985 | -82 | -82 | 891 | 1.3 | 975 | -7.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 260 | 291 | -31 | -31 | 213 | 22.1 | 199 | 30.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 643 | 694 | -51 | -51 | 678 | -5.2 | 775 | -17.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 2,637 | 2,853 | -216 | -216 | 2,438 | 8.2 | 2,790 | -5.5 | |||||||||||||||||
Summary
Working gas in storage was 2,637 Bcf as of Friday, January 16, 2015, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net decline of 216 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 199 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 153 Bcf below the 5-year average of 2,790 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 75 Bcf below the 5-year average following net withdrawals of 118 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 72 Bcf below the 5-year average of 975 Bcf after a net withdrawal of 82 Bcf. Stocks in the West Region were 7 Bcf below the 5-year average after a net drawdown of 16 Bcf. At 2,637 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.