EIA Natural Gas Report: As of the week ending May 2, total U.S. natural gas inventories were 2145 billion cubic feet, an increase of 104 billion cubic feet from the previous week and a decrease of 412 billion cubic feet from the same period last year, a year-on-year decrease of 16.1%. At the same time, it was 30 billion cubic feet higher than the five-year average, an increase of 1.4%.