Analysts' Estimates For Tomorrow's EIA Weekly Storage Report

DJ Analysts: U.S. Natural-Gas Inventories Rose on Par With Five-Year Average

   By Timothy Puko


  Analysts expect government data scheduled for release Thursday to show natural-gas inventories last week rose about
on par with their five-year average increase for that time of the year.

  The U.S. Energy Information Administration is expected to report that storage levels grew by 98 billion cubic feet of
gas during the week ended Oct. 2, according to the average forecast of 17 analysts and traders surveyed by The Wall
Street Journal.

  The EIA is scheduled to release its storage data for the week on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. EDT.

  For the Oct. 2 week, the median estimate is for an addition of 98 bcf. Estimates range from an addition of 87 bcf to
an addition of 102 bcf.

  The estimate for last week compares to 106 bcf added to storage for the same week last year and the 92-bcf five-year
average addition for that week.

  If the storage estimate is correct, inventories as of Oct. 2 totaled 3.6 trillion cubic feet, 14% above levels from a
year ago and 4.5% above the five-year average for the same week.


  Write to Timothy Puko at tim.puko@wsj.com


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