EIA Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report Up 39 BCF

This report covers the first week of the heatwave and is the lowest June injection I can recall over years of watching this stuff. The futures are nonetheless down 9.3 cents at $2.852.
From the EIA:

Released: July 6, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. (eastern time) for the Week Ending June 29, 2012.
Next Release: July 12, 2012

Working Gas in Underground Storage, Lower 48

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Region	Stocks in billion cubic feet (Bcf)			Historical Comparisons
	06/29/12	06/22/12	Change	Year Ago (06/29/11)		5-Year (2007-2011) Average
				Stocks (Bcf)	% Change	Stocks (Bcf)	% Change
East	1,512	1,477	35	1,171	29.1	1,244	21.5
West	471	456	15	346	36.1	382	23.3
Producing	1,119	1,130	-11	982	14.0	903	23.9
Total	3,102	3,063	39	2,500	24.1	2,529	22.7

Notes and Definitions Beginning with the report period for the week ending March 16, 2012, EIA is including salt dome and nonsalt-dome subtotals for the Producing Region in the Summary section.   The sum of the components may not equal the total for the Producing Region, because of independent rounding.

Summary Working gas in storage was 3,102 Bcf as of Friday, June 29, 2012, according to EIA estimates. This represents a net increase of 39 Bcf from the previous week. Stocks were 602 Bcf higher than last year at this time and 573 Bcf above the 5-year average of 2,529 Bcf. In the East Region, stocks were 268 Bcf above the 5-year average following net injections of 35 Bcf. Stocks in the Producing Region were 216 Bcf above the 5-year average of 903 Bcf after a net withdrawal of 11 Bcf. Stocks in the West Region were 89 Bcf above the 5-year average after a net addition of 15 Bcf. At 3,102 Bcf, total working gas is above the 5-year historical range. Working gas stocks in the Producing Region, for the week ending June 29, 2012, totaled 1,119 Bcf, with 258 Bcf in salt cavern facilities and 860 Bcf in nonsalt cavern facilities. Working gas stocks decreased 9 Bcf in the salt cavern facilities and decreased 2 Bcf in the nonsalt cavern facilities since June 22. An historical series of the salt and nonsalt subtotals of the Producing Region is available for download at: wngsr_producing_region_salt.xls.

Note: The shaded area indicates the range between the historical minimum and maximum values for the weekly series from 2007 through 2011. Source: Form EIA-912, "Weekly Underground Natural Gas Storage Report." The dashed vertical lines indicate current and year-ago weekly periods.