EIA Natural Gas Report: As of the week ending July 4, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 3,006 billion cubic feet, an increase of 53 billion cubic feet from the previous week and a decrease of 184 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, a year-on-year decrease of 5.8%. At the same time, it was 173 billion cubic feet higher than the five-year average, an increase of 6.1%.