Weekly storage of natural gas in U.S. down: EIA

HOUSTON, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Working gas storage in the contiguous United States was 1,389 billion cubic feet in the week ending March 18, a net decrease of 51 billion cubic feet from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Thursday in a report.

The total working gas storage decreased by 20.9 percent from this time last year, or down 17.4 percent above the five-year average, according to the EIA's Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report.