EIA Natural Gas Report: For the week ending February 20, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 2,018 billion cubic feet, a decrease of 52 billion cubic feet from the previous week and an increase of 141 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, representing a year-on-year increase of 7.5%. At the same time, they were 7 billion cubic feet lower than the 5-year average, representing a decrease of 0.3%.