The report covers the week ended July 6th i.e. the second week of the East coast heatwave.
One datapoint to begin tracking: storage in the producing region which will top off before total storage and is at 79% of capacity.
In a generally down energy complex the front futures are up 1.7 cents at $2.87.
From
the EIA:
Released: July 12, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. (eastern time) for the Week Ending July 6, 2012.
Next Release: July 19, 2012
| Working Gas in Underground Storage, Lower 48 |
other formats: Summary TXT CSV |
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Historical Comparisons |
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Year Ago (07/06/11) |
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-dome 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.
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Summary
Working gas in storage was 3,135 Bcf as of Friday, July 6, 2012,
according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 33 Bcf from the previous week.
Stocks were 548 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 516 Bcf above
the 5-year average of 2,619 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 229 Bcf above
the 5-year average following net injections of 20 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 196 Bcf above
the 5-year average of 923 Bcf after
no net change in stock levels. Stocks in the West Region
were 92 Bcf above the 5-year average after a net addition of 13 Bcf. At 3,135 Bcf,
total working gas is above the 5-year historical range.
Working gas stocks in the Producing Region, for the week ending July
6, 2012, totaled 1,119 Bcf, with 251 Bcf in salt cavern facilities and
868 Bcf in nonsalt cavern facilities. Working gas stocks decreased 7 Bcf
in the salt cavern facilities and increased 8 Bcf in the nonsalt cavern
facilities since June 29. An historical series of the salt and nonsalt
subtotals of the Producing Region is available for download at:
wngsr_producing_region_salt.xls.
