Natural Gas in Storage in Nebraska
The traditional inventory–building season is April to October for natural gas. The volume of working gas in underground storage by November 1 has to meet winter's demands under any circumstance. The volume in storage in May was approximately 72 percent of storage capacity.
In May 2026, Nebraska had the capacity to store 12,653 million cubic feet (mmcf) of working natural gas or working gas, and there was 9,060 mmcf working gas according to the Energy Information Administration estimates. As shown in Figure 1 and the data table below, this volume of working gas was an increase of 491 mmcf (or 5.7 percent) from the previous month and below 4.9 percent from May 2025 (last year). Stocks were above the five–year average, below last year's stocks, and at the upper boundary of the five–year range.
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Sources: Underground Natural Gas Storage by All Operators and Underground Natural Gas Storage Capacity. Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC. Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, Lincoln, NE.
This report was updated on August 3, 2026.
Typically, there is a month between updates.