Underground natural gas storage in the United States, 1979-1980 heating year (April 1979-March 1980)

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6819451

Koelling, G W

Total gas in storage in the nation's active underground natural gas storage reservoirs as of March 31, 1980, the end of the 1979-1980 heating year, was reported at 5129 billion cubic feet. Of this total, approximately 69.1 percent was base, or cushion, gas and 30.9 percent was working gas. The volume of the latter is usually built up by injecting gas into storage when market requirements are below available gas flow in transmission lines. This gas is withdrawn from storage when supplies from producing fields and/or the capacity of transmission systems are inadequate to meet peak requirements. Working gas in storage at the end of the 1979-1980 heating year totaled 1586 billion cubic feet, approximately 28.2 percent above that available at the beginning of the heating year. This increase resulted from an excess of storage injections over withdrawals of 462 billion cubic feet during the heating year. These net injections also resulted in a 2.4 percent increase, to 3543 billion cubic feet, in the volume of base gas in storage. However, it should be noted that the total of working and base gas in storage at the end of the 1979-1980 heating year differs slightly from the sum of gas in storage at the beginning of the heating year and net injections during the year. This is due to changes and revisions in the quantities of native gas included in base gas and losses in base gas due to migration from storage reservoirs.

• Research Organization: USDOE Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC. Office of Oil and Gas Statistics
• OSTI ID: 6819451
• Report Number(s): DOE/EIA-0239(79)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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