EIA Natural Gas Report: For the week ending April 10, total U.S. natural gas inventories stood at 1.97 trillion cubic feet, up 59 billion cubic feet from the previous week and up 126 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. It was also 108 billion cubic feet higher than the 5-year average, an increase of 5.8%.