Weekly storage of natural gas in U.S. up

HOUSTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Working gas storage in the contiguous United States was 2,902 billion cubic feet in the week ending Jan. 6, a net increase of 11 billion cubic feet from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said Thursday.

The total working gas storage fell 4.6 percent from this time last year, and was down 1.4 percent from the five-year average, according to the EIA's Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report.