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Working gas by week, 2026 against the two prior years

Lower 48 working gas in underground storage, Bcf.

Machine-learning forecast of the next EIA storage report Loading

Forecast of the weekly change in Lower 48 working gas, Bcf (positive = injection), refreshed every day.

How it works: gradient boosting and ridge regression, averaged, trained on EIA weekly storage since 2015 with population-weighted heating and cooling degree days for ten large metro areas (Open-Meteo), the five-year average for the week, last week's change, the storage surplus or deficit, and gas burn for power from EIA's hourly grid data (added in November 2026 after it cut the backtest miss by about 4%; adding nuclear outages did not help, so they are left out). Accuracy comes from a walk-forward backtest that refits every week using only data available at the time; it uses observed weather, so live errors can be a little larger when the week's last days are still a weather forecast. The chart shows the last 26 backtest weeks.

Storage by region

Week ending Oct 16, 2026, Bcf. Salt and nonsalt are parts of South Central.

Supply and trade balance

EIA STEO Table 5a, Bcf/d. End inventories in Bcf.

Consumption by sector

Bcf/d. Power burn peaks in summer (Q3); residential and commercial heating peak in winter. Lighter bars and labels marked forecast are EIA forecasts.

Sector detail

EIA STEO, October 2026, Bcf/d.

Pipeline, LNG and disruption watch

Projects entering service and supply disruptions over the past year, oldest first.

Henry Hub, TTF and JKM, weekly

$/MMBtu, weekly. Henry Hub spot (EIA); TTF front-month futures converted from €/MWh (ICE via Yahoo Finance); JKM front month (OilPriceAPI), with history building week by week from October 2026. The late-January 2026 Henry Hub spike came from a winter storm.

Global gas prices, front month

$/MMBtu. Henry Hub is the November settle on Oct 23, 2026; TTF (November) and JKM (December) are Oct 26, 2026. The spread to Asia and Europe is what pulls US LNG cargoes.

Prescriptive signals

Each signal compares a reading above with a fixed threshold and suggests an action from a gas buyer's point of view. Illustrative guidance, not financial or trading advice.

LNG and natural gas headlines

Latest stories from BOE Report and the EIA, refreshed every 2 hours. Headlines link to the publisher's site.

LNG carriers at US Gulf Coast export terminals Loading

Ship positions from public AIS receivers (aisstream.io), collected about every 10 minutes. A ship counts as an LNG carrier if it is on the reference fleet list, if its name says LNG, or if it is a tanker of 270 m or more stopped at an LNG berth. Ships moving in or out are shown if heard in the last 3 hours; ships at a berth or at anchor stay for up to 24 hours, with the time they were last heard, because shore receivers near some terminals report only now and then.

Global LNG carrier fleet: where ships are and where they are heading Loading

Total fleet: 764 LNG carriers in operation. Positions come from public AIS data (aisstream.io), matched by IMO number or name. New carriers delivered after the list was compiled are added once the tracker sees them at an LNG berth, with their capacity estimated from their length. The map and the list below show every located ship. Click a tile or a filter button to show only those ships on both, and click a ship on the map or in the list to open its public VesselFinder page. "At US terminal" means heard at a US export terminal in the last 24 hours; a ship last heard there earlier is shown as "Left US" if it was moving, or "Last heard at US terminal" if it was stopped. Destinations are what the crew types into AIS ("FOR ORDERS" means not yet decided; "inferred" means none was received, so the nearest US terminal is assumed for a ship close to one), so "Bound for US" uses that text, which is not always kept up to date. "Left US" means the ship was at a US export terminal in the last 60 days and has since sailed. Coverage is shore-based receivers only, so ships in mid-ocean drop out until they near a coast. For a ship out of range that was underway to a port we recognise, the map shows an estimated position (hollow marker): its last speed projected along standard shipping lanes, with an estimated arrival time and a confidence that falls the longer it goes unheard. Estimates are not observations; the next real sighting replaces them. Passages through chokepoints (Florida Straits, Panama, Gibraltar, the English Channel, Suez, Hormuz, Malacca, the Cape) and port calls are logged as the recent route. Other positions up to 7 days old are shown with their age. Loaded? shows whether a carrier is carrying LNG or sailing empty (in ballast), read from the draught each ship broadcasts: loaded LNG carriers usually sit about 11–12.5 m deep and empty ones about 9–10 m. Crews enter the draught by hand, so it can lag a voyage; ships that have not broadcast one yet are shown as not reported.

Live ship traffic near US Gulf Coast LNG terminals Live

Live AIS ship positions from VesselFinder, centered on the Gulf Coast export terminals from Corpus Christi to Plaquemines, with ship names shown. The map shows every vessel type in VesselFinder's own color scheme, so LNG carriers appear with the tankers. Zoom in to read names, or click a ship for its type, speed and destination.

View LNG tankers on VesselFinder ↗

Export terminals

Liquefaction capacity, Bcf/d. Blank where the sources used do not give a figure.