Table 14. Activities of underground natural gas storage operators, by State, September 2003; - volumes in million cubic feet

Natural Gas Monthly, Nov, 2003

Table 14. Activities of Underground Natural Gas Storage Operators, by
State, September 2003
(Volumes in Million Cubic Feet)

                                         Natural Gas in
                      Total            Underground Storage
       State          Storage            at End of Period
                      Capacity       Base    Working      Total
                                     Gas       Gas

Alabama                  8,520      2,975      5,555      8,530
Arkansas                22,000      8,715      7,002     15,717
California             478,995    232,490    205,086    437,575
Colorado               101,055     47,528     34,494     82,022
Illinois               945,307    666,338    238,005    904,343
Indiana                111,095     79,019     26,626    105,644
Iowa                   273,200    199,550     54,355    253,905
Kansas                 299,474    178,309     91,033    269,342
Kentucky               220,597    139,749     67,558    207,307
Louisiana              587,116    269,278    222,542    491,820
Maryland                62,000     46,677     12,956     59,633
Michigan             1,075,261    445,942    473,532    919,475
Minnesota                7,000      4,840      1,846      6,686
Mississippi            144,787     80,375     59,324    139,699
Missouri                32,098     21,600     10,022     31,622
Montana                374,201    179,123     24,086    203,208
Nebraska                39,469     26,379      3,772     30,152
New Mexico              89,800     32,132      5,989     38,121
New York               190,157     98,937     78,382    177,319
Ohio                   573,709    348,821    169,526    518,346
Oklahoma               389,947    208,028    124,239    332,267
Oregon                  23,676      9,714     13,465     23,179
Pennsylvania           714,417    339,855    356,085    695,940
Tennessee                1,200        340        463        803
Texas                  699,472    235,812    272,617    508,429
Utah                   129,480     64,714     44,275    108,990
Virginia                 6,344      2,836      3,247      6,083
Washington              39,628     19,931     19,681     39,612
West Virginia          509,836    272,993    191,226    464,219
Wyoming                115,069     64,989     25,926     90,915

AGA Regions

  Producing          2,241,115  1,015,623    788,302  1,803,926
  Eastern Consuming  4,754,690  2,689,036  1,685,755  4,374,791
  Western Consuming  1,269,103    623,328    368,859    992,187

 Total               8,264,908  4,327,988  2,842,916  7,170,904

                      Change in Working
                        Gas from Same          Storage Activity
                       Period Previous Year
       State            Volume  Percent        Injections  Withdrawals

Alabama                  3,132   129.2              1,283         44
Arkansas                  -384    -5.2                907          0
California              -9,758    -4.5             22,630      1,311
Colorado                -3,074    -8.2              5,394      1,188
Illinois                -6,942    -2.8             34,216      1,137
Indiana                 -1,819    -6.4              3,834         12
Iowa                     6,308    13.1             14,855          5
Kansas                  -4,876    -5.1             15,947        661
Kentucky                -3,566    -5.0              8,752        109
Louisiana              -26,090   -10.5             44,953      3,136
Maryland                -1,523   -10.5                773        614
Michigan               -54,378   -10.3             74,673        498
Minnesota                  -28    -1.5                239          0
Mississippi              9,971    20.2              5,479      1,908
Missouri                   220     2.2                496         20
Montana                 -9,012   -27.2              3,704      2,154
Nebraska                -2,104   -35.8              1,352         61
New Mexico              -3,782   -38.7              1,536      1,506
New York                 4,175     5.6              9,962        228
Ohio                   -19,331   -10.2             25,809        432
Oklahoma               -13,050    -9.5             29,130        525
Oregon                   1,037     8.3              1,220          0
Pennsylvania           -14,940    -4.0             53,548      1,815
Tennessee                 -140   -23.2                  2          0
Texas                  -38,185   -12.3             43,483     10,066
Utah                    -3,944    -8.2              6,578      2,396
Virginia                   616    23.4                671         56
Washington               1,139     6.1              2,239        303
West Virginia            2,440     1.3             24,309        242
Wyoming                -10,836   -29.5              3,227        211

AGA Regions

  Producing            -73,263    -8.5            142,719     17,845
  Eastern Csuming      -90,983    -5.1            253,254      5,229
  Western Csuming      -34,477    -8.5             45,231      7,564

 Total                -198,723    -6.5            441,204     30,638

Notes: Gas in storage at the end of a reporting period may not equal the
quantity derived by adding or subtracting net injections or withdrawals
during the period to the quantity of gas in storage at the beginning of
the period. Totals may not equal sum of components because of
independent rounding. Geographic coverage is the 50 States and the
District of Columbia. The EIA publishes weekly estimates of working gas
in underground storage by geographical regions developed by the
American Gas Association (AGA) when they published similar weekly
estimates. The AGA Producing Region is Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New
Mexico, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi; the Eastern
Consuming Region is all States east of the Mississippi River
less Mississippi and Alabama, plus Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri; the
Western Consuming Region is all States west of the Mississippi River
less the Producing Region and lowa, Nebraska and Missouri.

Source: Form EIA-191, "Monthly Underground Gas Storage Report."