Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report
for week ending September 30, 2022 | Released: October 6, 2022 at 10:30 a.m. | Next Release: October 13, 2022
| 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 (09/30/21) |
5-year average (2017-21) |
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| Region | 09/30/22 | 09/23/22 | net change | implied flow | Bcf | % change | Bcf | % change | |||||||||||||||||
| East | 756 | 721 | 35 | 35 | 806 | -6.2 | 833 | -9.2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Midwest | 916 | 879 | 37 | 37 | 966 | -5.2 | 970 | -5.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mountain | 184 | 176 | 8 | 8 | 205 | -10.2 | 208 | -11.5 | |||||||||||||||||
| Pacific | 247 | 243 | 4 | 4 | 247 | 0.0 | 286 | -13.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| South Central | 1,003 | 958 | 45 | 45 | 1,048 | -4.3 | 1,074 | -6.6 | |||||||||||||||||
| Salt | 225 | 204 | 21 | 21 | 256 | -12.1 | 266 | -15.4 | |||||||||||||||||
| Nonsalt | 778 | 754 | 24 | 24 | 792 | -1.8 | 808 | -3.7 | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 3,106 | 2,977 | 129 | 129 | 3,271 | -5.0 | 3,370 | -7.8 | |||||||||||||||||
Totals may not equal sum of components because of independent rounding. |
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,106 Bcf as of Friday, September 30, 2022, according to EIA estimates.
This represents a net increase of 129 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 165 Bcf less than last year at this time and 264 Bcf below the five-year average of 3,370 Bcf.
At 3,106 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 2017 through 2021. 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 | 09/30/22 | 09/23/22 | net change | ||||||||
| East | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.6 | ||||||||
| Midwest | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Mountain | 1.9 | 2.0 | 0.1 | ||||||||
| Pacific | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||||||
| South Central | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | ||||||||
| Salt | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | ||||||||
| Nonsalt | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.4 | ||||||||
| Total | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ||||||||