EIA Natural Gas Report: For the week ending January 30, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 2.463 trillion cubic feet, down 360 billion cubic feet from the previous week and up 41 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, a year-on-year increase of 1.7%. At the same time, they were 27 billion cubic feet lower than the 5-year average, a decrease of 1.1%.