Table 5a. U.S. Natural Gas Supply, Consumption, and Inventories

U.S. Energy Information Administration | Short-Term Energy Outlook - September 2013

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Supply (billion cubic feet per day)

NGMPPUS Total Marketed Production ........................................... 70.45 70.47 70.69 70.64 70.48 70.49 70.44 70.08 69.88 70.44 70.38 70.62

NGMPPAK Alaska ..................................................................... 0.99 1.01 1.00 0.92 0.85 0.79 0.69 0.77 0.85 0.89 0.94 0.96

NGMPPGLF Federal GOM (a) ..................................................... 4.12 4.02 4.04 3.99 3.87 4.00 4.02 3.75 3.59 3.85 3.64 3.79

NGMP48NGOM Lower 48 States (excl GOM) ................................... 65.33 65.43 65.65 65.74 65.76 65.70 65.73 65.55 65.44 65.71 65.80 65.87

NGPRPUS Total Dry Gas Production ........................................... 66.85 66.87 67.08 67.04 66.88 66.89 66.84 66.50 66.31 66.85 66.79 67.01

NGIMPUS Gross Imports ............................................................ 8.95 8.38 8.27 7.85 7.82 8.06 8.42 8.47 7.93 8.06 8.20 8.79

NGIMPUS_PIPE Pipeline ................................................................... 8.52 8.00 7.85 7.42 7.38 7.72 8.07 8.10 7.48 7.60 7.79 8.42

NGIMPUS_LNG LNG ........................................................................ 0.42 0.38 0.42 0.42 0.45 0.34 0.36 0.37 0.45 0.46 0.41 0.38

NGEXPUS Gross Exports ............................................................ 5.02 5.12 5.08 4.72 4.75 4.67 4.66 4.65 4.81 4.87 5.16 5.27

NGNIPUS Net Imports ................................................................ 3.93 3.26 3.19 3.13 3.07 3.39 3.77 3.82 3.12 3.19 3.04 3.53

NGSFPUS Supplemental Gaseous Fuels ..................................... 0.19 0.19 0.19 0.16 0.15 0.16 0.16 0.17 0.17 0.18 0.19 0.19

NGNWPUS Net Inventory Withdrawals .......................................... 23.58 18.53 4.02 -7.39 -12.75 -11.17 -8.14 -7.55 -11.27 -8.81 1.04 17.27

NGPSUPP Total Supply .................................................................. 94.55 88.86 74.48 62.93 57.35 59.27 62.63 62.93 58.34 61.40 71.07 88.00

BALIT Balancing Item (b) ......................................................... -1.55 -1.06 0.94 -0.11 -0.72 -1.16 -0.99 -0.35 -0.29 -1.40 -0.71 -1.87

NGSUPP Total Primary Supply ..................................................... 93.00 87.80 75.42 62.83 56.63 58.12 61.64 62.59 58.05 60.00 70.35 86.13

Consumption (billion cubic feet per day)

NGRCPUS Residential .................................................................. 29.04 25.79 18.57 10.95 6.19 4.16 3.60 3.54 4.05 7.71 15.45 24.93

NGCCPUS Commercial ................................................................ 16.04 14.11 11.61 7.83 5.39 4.35 4.11 4.30 4.60 6.78 9.90 14.23

NGINX Industrial ..................................................................... 22.39 22.62 21.14 20.05 19.21 19.24 19.00 19.28 19.57 19.82 21.22 22.30

NGEPCON Electric Power (c) ....................................................... 18.92 18.72 17.91 18.19 20.23 24.73 29.21 29.76 24.31 20.08 17.91 18.34

NGLPPUS Lease and Plant Fuel .................................................. 3.88 3.88 3.89 3.89 3.88 3.88 3.88 3.86 3.85 3.88 3.87 3.89

NGACPUS Pipeline and Distribution Use ...................................... 2.64 2.60 2.21 1.83 1.63 1.66 1.75 1.76 1.59 1.63 1.91 2.36

NGVHPUS Vehicle Use ................................................................ 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093 0.093

NGTCPUS Total Consumption ........................................................ 93.00 87.80 75.42 62.83 56.63 58.12 61.64 62.59 58.05 60.00 70.35 86.13

End-of-period Inventories (billion cubic feet)

NGWGPUS Working Gas Inventory ............................................... 2,534 2,015 1,890 2,112 2,507 2,842 3,095 3,329 3,667 3,940 3,909 3,373

NGWG_PROD Producing Region (d) ............................................... 945 812 833 920 1,024 1,071 1,090 1,088 1,179 1,271 1,293 1,169

NGWG_ECON East Consuming Region (d) ..................................... 1,206 880 747 870 1,102 1,328 1,532 1,744 1,955 2,101 2,053 1,719

NGWG_WCON West Consuming Region (d) .................................... 382 323 310 321 382 443 473 496 533 568 563 486

- = no data available

(a) Marketed production from U.S. Federal leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

(b) The balancing item represents the difference between the sum of the components of natural gas supply and the sum of components of natural gas demand.

(c) Natural gas used for electricity generation and (a limited amount of) useful thermal output by electric utilities and independent power producers.

(d) For a list of States in each inventory region refer to Methodology for EIA Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Estimates (http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/ngs/methodology.html).

Notes: The approximate break between historical and forecast values is shown with historical data printed in bold; estimates and forecasts in italics.

LNG: liquefied natural gas.

Historical data: Latest data available from Energy Information Administration databases supporting the following reports: Natural Gas Monthly , DOE/EIA-0130; and Electric Power Monthly , D

Minor discrepancies with published historical data are due to independent rounding. 

Projections: Generated by simulation of the EIA Regional Short-Term Energy Model.

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