EIA Natural Gas Storage: Release Dates, Results & History
EIA Natural Gas Storage last printed 15.0B on Thu, Aug 27, 2026 against a 19.0B consensus forecast and a 16.0B prior, a -0.33 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
The Thursday storage number is the natural gas market's weekly verdict: the injection or withdrawal against the five-year average says whether the market is loose or tight. Henry Hub reprices on the miss within seconds, and the storage trajectory through each shoulder season frames the whole winter risk premium. Power-burn and LNG-export demand swings show up here first.
The trend, at a glance
How it moves Treasuries
Gas feeds power and heating bills, so a genuinely tight storage picture leaks into utility CPI over time. The weekly print is an energy trade, not a rates trade. See it scored live on the Helious desk, or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
Recent prints, as captured by the desk
| DATE | ACTUAL | FORECAST | PRIOR | SURPRISE (SD) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.0B | 19.0B | 16.0B | -0.33 | BELOW FORECAST | |
| 16.0B | 17.0B | 36.0B | -0.08 | BELOW FORECAST | |
| 36.0B | 31.0B | 33.0B | +0.42 | ABOVE FORECAST | |
| 33.0B | 31.0B | 28.0B | +0.17 | ABOVE FORECAST | |
| 28.0B | 35.0B | 32.0B | -0.58 | BELOW FORECAST | |
| 32.0B | 29.0B | 41.0B | +0.25 | ABOVE FORECAST |
The 6 most recent prints from the desk's live capture (began July 2026), a sample. Every row links the print page published the moment the number landed; the full graded history is served by the API.
Weekly, every Thursday · 10:30 AM ET · download a sample (CSV, recent rows), free to cite with a link to this page. The full history comes through the Helious API and MCP at api.helious.io/mcp, with depth set by plan.