Released: September 27, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. (eastern time) for the Week Ending September 21, 2012.
Next Release: October 4, 2012
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| Working Gas in Underground Storage, Lower 48 |
other formats: Summary TXT CSV |
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Historical Comparisons |
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Year Ago (09/21/11) |
5-Year (2007-2011) Average |
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| Notes and Definitions
Beginning with the report period for the week ending March 16, 2012, EIA is including salt dome and nonsalt facility subtotals for the Producing Region in the Summary section. The sum of the components may not equal the total for the Producing Region, because of independent rounding. |
Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,576 Bcf as of Friday, September 21, 2012,
according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 80 Bcf from the previous week.
Stocks were 296 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 282 Bcf above
the 5-year average of 3,294 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 75 Bcf above
the 5-year average following net injections of 46 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 159 Bcf above
the 5-year average of 994 Bcf after
a net injection of 29 Bcf. Stocks in the West Region
were 48 Bcf above the 5-year average after a net addition of 5 Bcf. At 3,576 Bcf,
total working gas is above the 5-year historical range.
Working gas stocks in the Producing Region, for the week ending September 21, 2012, totaled 1,153 Bcf, with 232 Bcf in salt cavern facilities and 921 Bcf in nonsalt cavern facilities. Working gas stocks increased 15 Bcf in the salt cavern facilities and increased 14 Bcf in the nonsalt cavern facilities since September 14. An historical series of the salt and nonsalt subtotals of the Producing Region is available for download at: wngsr_producing_region_salt.xls.
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Note: The shaded area indicates the range between the historical minimum and maximum
values for the weekly series from 2007 through 2011.
Source: Form EIA-912, "Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report." The dashed vertical lines indicate current and year-ago weekly periods.
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