Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending January 5, 2024 | Released: January 11, 2024 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: January 18, 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 (01/05/23) |
5-year average (2019-23) |
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| Region | 01/05/24 | 12/29/23 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 757 | 799 | -42 | -42 | 699 | 8.3 | 715 | 5.9 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 924 | 968 | -44 | -44 | 825 | 12.0 | 842 | 9.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 220 | 228 | -8 | -8 | 154 | 42.9 | 161 | 36.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 275 | 280 | -5 | -5 | 161 | 70.8 | 219 | 25.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,160 | 1,201 | -41 | -41 | 1,063 | 9.1 | 1,053 | 10.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 332 | 344 | -12 | -12 | 291 | 14.1 | 316 | 5.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 828 | 857 | -29 | -29 | 772 | 7.3 | 737 | 12.3 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,336 | 3,476 | -140 | -140 | 2,900 | 15.0 | 2,988 | 11.6 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,336 Bcf as of Friday, January 5, 2024, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 140 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 436 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 348 Bcf above the five-year average of 2,988 Bcf.
At 3,336 Bcf, total working gas is above 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 | 01/05/24 | 12/29/23 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.4 | 1.5 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.3 | ||||||||