Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending April 12, 2019 | Released: April 18, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: April 25, 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 (04/12/18) |
5-year average (2014-18) |
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| Region | 04/12/19 | 04/05/19 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 228 | 209 | 19 | 19 | 208 | 9.6 | 264 | -13.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 254 | 240 | 14 | 14 | 231 | 10.0 | 332 | -23.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 66 | 64 | 2 | 2 | 83 | -20.5 | 115 | -42.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 128 | 119 | 9 | 9 | 174 | -26.4 | 211 | -39.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 571 | 523 | 48 | 48 | 608 | -6.1 | 739 | -22.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 187 | 166 | 21 | 21 | 187 | 0.0 | 218 | -14.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 384 | 357 | 27 | 27 | 421 | -8.8 | 521 | -26.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 1,247 | 1,155 | 92 | 92 | 1,304 | -4.4 | 1,661 | -24.9 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 1,247 Bcf as of Friday, April 12, 2019, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 92 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 57 Bcf less than last year at this time and 414 Bcf below the five-year average of 1,661 Bcf.
At 1,247 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 | 04/12/19 | 04/05/19 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 2.5 | 2.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.0 | ||||||||