EIA Natural Gas Report: For the week ending March 6, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 1,848 billion cubic feet, down 38 billion cubic feet from the previous week and up 141 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%. At the same time, they were 17 billion cubic feet lower than the 5-year average, a decrease of 0.9%.