The EIA is scheduled to release its storage data Thursday at 10:30 a.m. EST.
| The survey’s median result was 105 billion cubic feet, with a high estimate of a 120-bcf draw and a low of a 98-bcf draw. The storage estimate falls short of last year’s 181-bcf draw in storage for the same week and the 140-bcf five-year average draw for that week. |
| If the storage estimate is correct, inventories as of Dec. 16 will total 3.623 trillion cubic feet, about 11.8% above the five-year average and 6.7% above last year’s level for the same week. |
| Warmer-than-normal temperatures have driven inventory draws to come in below average throughout autumn. That continued last week across the northern tier and eastern seaboard of the country. Those patterns are expected to continue into the new year. |
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