EIA Natural Gas Monthly Report

It is the monthly ledger of the American gas economy, and the reference every faster feed gets checked against. Each issue of the Natural Gas Monthly assembles 25 numbered tables and 6 figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration's survey system: Table 1 lays out the whole-country supply-and-disposition balance, Table 3 collects the selected national average prices, Tables 4 and 5 track imports and exports, Table 8 reports underground storage across all operators, and Tables 14 and 19 go where panels actually need to go - residential deliveries by state and average citygate price by state. Appendices A through C1 document the abbreviations, the glossary and the underlying data sources, so attribution survives peer review.

The verified current issue carries May 2026 data, and its highlights explain why traders and analysts keep the publication bookmarked: dry production of 110.3 Bcf/d, a fourteenth consecutive month of year-over-year growth; consumption of 75.8 Bcf/d; net exports of 19.1 Bcf/d, with LNG cargoes reaching 34 countries. Within Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets across 159 viable industries, this record scores 9/10 against a catalog mean of 7.81 - one of the anchors of the sixteen-record gas utilities slice.

The issue highlights first, exactly as the verified May 2026 edition published them:

issue          : Natural Gas Monthly - May 2026 data
table          : Table 1 Summary of natural gas supply and disposition, United States
dry_production : 110.3 Bcf/d     (14th consecutive month of year-over-year growth)
consumption    : 75.8 Bcf/d
net_exports    : 19.1 Bcf/d      (LNG shipments reached 34 countries)

And the anatomy of a row from a state-breakout table, using a title verified in the same issue - Table 19, average citygate price by state:

period         : <monthly or annual column, 2021-2026 window>
area           : <US total | Federal Offshore Gulf of America | individual state>
value          : <price in nominal dollars per thousand cubic feet>

Read together they show the product's shape: a handful of national totals that move the market, and beneath them fifty-state grids whose cells share one period axis and one unit convention. Your sample arrives cut to the tables, states and years you name - the national balance if you are modeling supply, the citygate grid if you are benchmarking a distribution territory.

Five field families define every value, and all five were verified against the published issue rather than inferred from a description. Table number and title keys every extract back to its printed place, so a delivered row always says which of the 25 tables it came from. The period axis carries both monthly and annual columns over a roughly five-year window, which means seasonal shape and trend come out of one pull instead of two stitched ones. Values split cleanly between volumes (MMcf, Bcf, Bcf per day) and prices (nominal dollars per thousand cubic feet), and the geographic dimension names its level explicitly - US total, Federal Offshore Gulf of America, or a state.

Everything beyond the verified spine folds under additional fields on request: the companion comparative view, the series behind the six figures, three tables that publish without spreadsheet renditions in the current issue, pre-2025 archive assembly and the appendix lookups. Name what you need when you request the sample and we confirm availability for your scope before quoting anything.

Geography - the United States in total, with state-level breakouts wherever the statistical system supports them: gross withdrawals and marketed production, underground storage, deliveries to consumers, and citygate and end-use prices. Imports and exports cut finer still, by trading partner country - which is how one issue can show Canadian pipeline imports beside LNG cargoes bound for three dozen markets.

Temporal - every issue carries roughly five years of monthly and annual columns (2021 through 2026 in the verified edition), and the prior-issue archive reaches back decades, so a decade-scale series is an assembly job rather than a dead end. When one continuous run matters more than issue fidelity, the underlying dnav series cover the same measures back to 1973.

Granularity - national and state monthly aggregates. There is no facility- or company-level detail anywhere in this product; it describes the market, not the operators in it. Company counts and sales-versus-transported volumes live on the Form EIA-176-based state tables elsewhere in the catalog.

API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.

You pick the channel and set the cadence, and change either when the project changes - the observation calendar belongs to the source, the delivery rhythm belongs to you. Every delivery ships typed rows rather than spreadsheet archaeology: the 25-table issue flattened and keyed on table, period, area and value, units parsed, and the full field dictionary attached so validation takes minutes. A sample cut to your tables, states and years goes out first either way.

• Position reconciliation - investors and quant researchers reconcile exposures against official monthly supply, storage and citygate/end-use price prints, so a model built on private estimates has a government-defined ground truth to answer to.
• Monthly gas panels - data scientists assemble a United States panel from the 25 tables, keyed on table, period and area, with the complete prior-issue archive behind it for history.
• Citation-grade market analysis - market researchers and consultants cite the standard monthly compendium when sizing US gas demand; the appendices make the citation defensible down to the source survey.
• Territory scoping - sales teams use the state production and delivery breakouts to rank utility and industrial territories before committing coverage.
• Newsroom attribution - journalists attribute a monthly production record or export milestone to the official publication, with state detail to localize the story.
• Seasonal decomposition - paired monthly and annual columns on one period axis let analysts separate winter-shape from trend without re-basing anything.

Investors & Quant Researchers get the reconciliation layer - official monthly prints to test any private estimate against; see investors quants use cases. Data Scientists & ML Engineers get a flat, typed panel with a documented key and decades of archive to train on; see data scientists use cases. Market Researchers & Consultants get the citable standard for US gas-market sizing. Journalists, Academics & Students get provenance-first numbers, attributed to a named agency and survey system. Developers & Data-Product Builders get a stable schema that loads once and keeps loading; see developers builders use cases. Start from the gas utilities data hub or the ranked rundown of best gas utilities datasets to see where this record sits in the slice.

Three things worth knowing upfront.

First, this is aggregate statistics, not operations data. Rows describe the nation and the states; no facility identifiers, no company registers. If the question is who owns the pipe rather than how much moved through it, pair this with the asset-level Global Gas Infrastructure Tracker.

Second, prices are nominal dollars per thousand cubic feet, so multi-decade price comparisons need a deflator applied on your side. Volumes switch units by table - MMcf, Bcf, Bcf per day - and the delivered dictionary labels which convention each table uses, so the conversion happens once, in code.

Third, three tables in the current issue publish without spreadsheet renditions (9, 13 and 24), and the deep pre-2025 archive is an assembly job across prior issues. Both fold under additional fields on request: we map the stragglers against their dnav equivalents and confirm the archive plan for your date range at sampling. For the head-to-head against the longer-history sibling, see the comparison with EIA Natural Gas Supply, Disposition and Prices by Area, or read the gas utilities data guide for the lay of the catalog.