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U.S. ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION NOTE TO EDITORS: EIA Announces Changes to the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report The Energy Information Administration (EIA) will transition to a new Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR) on November 1, 2007. The three areas of change are the design, release procedure, and new Web address. The new design of the WNGSR will present an improved look to the basic data table. Further, the entire set of WNGSR-related documents has been reorganized to enhance customer usability. All customers of the WNGSR are encouraged to review the sample Web site to familiarize themselves with the revised contents. Additionally, EIA urges customers to participate in the release tests to resolve any difficulties prior to the transition. EIA has developed what we term a Gatekeeper application to ensure secure and prompt posting of the WNGSR. Gatekeeper will deny customer access to the data area for a brief period before the release time for the new data, and thereby accomplish two objectives. First, it will allow EIA to replace the prior week’s data with the new data without having to contend with web site users’ repeated attempts to access the new data prior to its release. Second, it will reduce the amount of EIA bandwidth unnecessarily occupied by customers during these attempts, which can jeopardize performance of the Web site for all. Users of automated retrieval programs (often called “robots”) are reminded that excessively accessing information from EIA’s website is prohibited. EIA is committed to provide equal access to information on its website and to promptly release information according to established schedules. EIA retains the right to limit or deny the use of any robotic activity on the EIA website that constitutes an excessive or malicious practice. The WNGSR will be moved from its current server to another EIA site. A sample of the new report is located at the new address: http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/natural_gas/ngs/ngs.html. Additional details on these changes and the testing program are available at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/natural_gas/ngs_notice.html.
EIA Program Contact: William Trapmann, (202) 586-6408 EIA-2007-07 Contact:
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