EIA Natural Gas Report: For the week ending March 20, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 1,829 billion cubic feet, a decrease of 54 billion cubic feet from the previous week, an increase of 90 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, representing a year-on-year increase of 5.2%, and 14 billion cubic feet higher than the 5-year average, representing an increase of 0.8%.