Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending October 4, 2024 | Released: October 10, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 17, 2024
| 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 (10/04/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 10/04/24 | 09/27/24 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 873 | 846 | 27 | 27 | 866 | 0.8 | 842 | 3.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 1,041 | 1,013 | 28 | 28 | 1,012 | 2.9 | 1,002 | 3.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 286 | 283 | 3 | 3 | 243 | 17.7 | 216 | 32.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 293 | 293 | 0 | 0 | 278 | 5.4 | 278 | 5.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,137 | 1,113 | 24 | 24 | 1,106 | 2.8 | 1,116 | 1.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 275 | 261 | 14 | 14 | 265 | 3.8 | 273 | 0.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 861 | 852 | 9 | 9 | 841 | 2.4 | 843 | 2.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,629 | 3,547 | 82 | 82 | 3,505 | 3.5 | 3,453 | 5.1 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,629 Bcf as of Friday, October 4, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 82 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 124 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 176 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,453 Bcf.
At 3,629 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 2019 through 2023. 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 | 10/04/24 | 09/27/24 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.2 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.8 | 1.9 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.0 | ||||||||