US natgas end-of-season storage to reach eight-year high in October
July 15 (Reuters) -U.S. natural gas storage is on track to end the April-October summer injection season at an eight-year high of 3.939 trillion cubic feet (tcf) on Oct. 31, according to analysts' estimates.
That compares with 3.809 tcf at the end of the summer injection season in 2023, the current record high of 4.013 tcf in 2016 and a five-year (2019-2023) average of 3.747 tcf.
Looking ahead to the end of the November 2024-March 2025 winter withdrawal season, analysts project storage will reach 1.746 tcf on March 31, the lowest in three years.
That compares with an eight-year high of 2.289 tcf of gas in storage at the end of the winter withdrawal season in 2024, 1.401 tcf at the end of March 2022 and a five-year (2020-2024) average of 1.874 tcf.
The 384 active storage fields in the Lower 48 states had a design capacity of 4.666 tcf in November 2023, according to the latest federal data available.
The following lists analysts' storage estimates in trillion cubic feet with the most recent estimates on top:
Company | Oct 31, 2024 | Oct 31, 2024 | Mar 31, 2025 | Mar 31, 2025 | Date |
tcf | tcf | tcf | tcf | ||
Current | Previous | Current | Previous | ||
Bank of America | 3.900 | 3.900 | Jul 15 | ||
EBW Analytics | 3.940 | 3.905 | Jul 15 | ||
LSEG | 4.136 | 4.195 | 1.521 | 1.563 | Jul 15 |
U.S. EIA | 3.968 | 3.679 | 1.971 | 1.931 | Jul 9 |
Piper Sandler | 3.880 | 3.900 | Jul 2 | ||
Tudor Pickering Holt & Co | 3.760 | 3.820 | Jun 24 | ||
Energy Aspects | 3.930 | May 17 | |||
Citibank | 3.872 | Apr 10 | |||
Morgan Stanley | 3.900 | Jan 5 | |||
UBS | 4.100 | Jan 3 |
Reporting by Scott DiSavino
For financial firm LSEG, see: cpurl://apps.cp./cms/?pageid=usa-gas
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