EIA Natural Gas Report: For the week ending July 17, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 3,056 billion cubic feet, an increase of 32 billion cubic feet from the previous week, a decrease of 16 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, a year-on-year decrease of 0.5%, and 183 billion cubic feet higher than the 5-year average, an increase of 6.4%.