July 27, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-191, Note: Maximum working gas represents highest demonstrated levels of storage across all facilities. Natural gas stored in salt facilities, principally in the greater Gulf Coast gas-producing region, accounts for only 10% of storage capacity in the Lower 48 states, but it provides 28% of daily […]
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July 16, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-191, Monthly Natural Gas Underground Storage Report Note: Working gas is defined as the quantity of natural gas in the reservoir that is in addition to base gas and is available for withdrawal. It may or may not be completely withdrawn during any particular withdrawal season. […]
June 8, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: PADD is Petroleum Administration for Defense District. In an effort to better present crude oil storage capacity and use across the United States, EIA has prepared new tables as part of the semiannual . The new series show crude oil stocks held at refineries crude oil […]
April 3, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Although pumped hydroelectric storage makes up most of the total electricity storage capacity in the United States, nonhydro storage has doubled in electric power sector capacity from 160 megawatts (MW) to nearly 350 MW over the past five years. About 98% of the U.S. electricity storage is […]
March 23, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, After increasing for 15 consecutive weeks, crude oil storage at Cushing, Oklahoma, reached 54.4 million barrels on March 13, according to EIA’s . This volume is the highest on record, but not the highest percent of storage utilization, as working storage capacity at Cushing has also increased […]
March 4, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: Inventories shown in the graph do not include pipeline fill, lease stocks, or oil in transit from Alaska. PADD is the Petroleum Administration for Defense District. Crude oil inventory data for the week ending February 20 show that total utilization of crude oil storage capacity in […]
February 26, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, With natural gas storage at national total capacity. EIA measures natural gas storage capacity in , which is typically when storage withdrawals begin to exceed storage injections. From November 2013 to November 2014, EIA found that each of EIA’s two measures of storage capacity within the Lower […]
November 7, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report Working natural gas in storage ended October at 3,571 billion cubic feet (Bcf), a record increase of 2,734 Bcf during the April 1 to October 31 injection season, and within 7% of the average of the last five end-of-season storage levels. While […]
October 1, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, In natural gas markets, analysts refer to the storage injection season as running from April 1 through October 31 of each year, but these dates are not strict cutoff points. In each of the past 11 years, going back to the first full year of EIA’s weekly […]
September 12, 2014 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Republished September 12, 2014, 10:20 a.m., the end date on the second graph was corrected. Storage injections have continued to outpace the five-year (2009-13) average this summer, with inventories as of September 5 at 2,801 billion cubic feet (Bcf), according to data from the , with stocks […]
