Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending December 11, 2020 | Released: December 17, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: December 23, 2020
| 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 (12/11/19) |
5-year average (2015-19) |
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| Region | 12/11/20 | 12/04/20 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 881 | 915 | -34 | -34 | 846 | 4.1 | 827 | 6.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 1,059 | 1,095 | -36 | -36 | 984 | 7.6 | 995 | 6.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 223 | 232 | -9 | -9 | 188 | 18.6 | 199 | 12.1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 306 | 312 | -6 | -6 | 274 | 11.7 | 295 | 3.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,256 | 1,294 | -38 | -38 | 1,149 | 9.3 | 1,167 | 7.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 348 | 361 | -13 | -13 | 320 | 8.8 | 338 | 3.0 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 908 | 933 | -25 | -25 | 830 | 9.4 | 829 | 9.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,726 | 3,848 | -122 | -122 | 3,442 | 8.3 | 3,483 | 7.0 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. Note: Because the federal government will be closed on December 24, the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report will be released December 23 at noon ET. Note: As of December 28, 2020, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will no longer support HTTP requests for our products. The Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR) will move from HTTP to HTTPS web addresses to ensure the security and timeliness of the data releases. More information about this change is available at: http://ir.eia.gov/ngs/notice.html. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,726 Bcf as of Friday, December 11, 2020, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net decrease of 122 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 284 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 243 Bcf above the five-year average of 3,483 Bcf.
At 3,726 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 2015 through 2019. 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 | 12/11/20 | 12/04/20 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.1 | ||||||||