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Posted August 1, 2022Today in Energy

California natural gas storage levels are much lower in the north than in the south ›

Working natural gas inventories at storage facilities operated by the two largest natural gas distributors in California—Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) in the north and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) in the south—totaled 100.6 billion cubic feet (Bcf) as of June 30, 2022, according to publicly available company data. Although total California inventories are 4% higher than they were one year ago, storage operation and capacity utilization vary significantly by region. More

California working natural gas inventories

Data source: Pacific Gas & Electric, California Gas Transmission, and Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), SoCalGas Envoy

Data Highlights

Retail gasoline price

8/1/2022: $4.192/gal

down$0.138 from week earlier
up$1.033 from year earlier

Retail diesel price

8/1/2022: $5.138/gal

down$0.130 from week earlier
up$1.771 from year earlier

WTI crude oil futures price

7/29/2022: $98.62/barrel

up$3.92 from week earlier
up$25.00 from year earlier

Natural gas futures price

7/29/2022: $8.229/MMBtu

down$0.070 from week earlier
up$4.170 from year earlier

Weekly coal production

7/23/2022: 11.530 million tons

up0.306 million tons from week earlier
up0.317 million tons from year earlier