EIA Natural Gas Report: As of the week ending October 17, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 380.8 billion cubic feet, an increase of 87 billion cubic feet from the previous week and 34 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, a year-on-year increase of 0.9%. At the same time, it was 16.4 billion cubic feet higher than the five-year average, an increase of 4.5%.