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Gas Storage Levels
Decrease By 330 Bcf
WASHINGTON-Underground
natural gas storage in the United States
stood at 2.725 trillion cubic feet on Dec.
21, 19.2 percent below the five year
average, according to the U.S. Energy
Information Administration. That was
down 330 billion cubic feet from the
3.055 Tcf in storage on Nov. 23, which
was 19.1 percent below the five-year
average. The Dec. 21 storage number
was 623 Bcf less than a year ago, when
gas storage stood at 3.348 Tcf.
According to EIA, gas storage in the
East Region was 676 Bcf on Dec. 21,
14.4 percent below the five-year
average and 102 Bcf less than on Nov.
23, when storage stood at 778 Bcf,
which was 12.9 percent below the fiveyear average. East Region gas storage
on Dec. 21 was 110 Bcf less than it was
a year ago.
Gas storage in the Midwest Region
stood at 818 Bcf on Dec. 21, 12.2
percent below the five-year average and
120 Bcf less than the 938 Bcf in storage
on Nov. 23, which was 12.3 percent
below the five year average. Dec. 21 gas
storage in the Midwest Region was 129
Bcf less than a year ago.
In the Mountain Region, EIA says,
gas storage was 150 Bcf on Dec. 21,
21.9 percent below the five-year
average and 21 Bcf less than the 171
Bcf stored on Nov. 23, which was 20.8
percent below the five-year average.
Gas storage in the Mountain Region
was 46 Bcf less than a year ago.
Gas storage in the Pacific Region
was 223 Bcf on Dec. 21, 27.4 percent
below the five-year average and 31 Bcf
less than the 254 Bcf stored on Nov. 23,
which was 26.8 percent below the fiveyear average. Pacific Region gas storage
on Dec. 21 was down 60 Bcf from a
year ago.
In the South-Central Region, gas

storage levels on Dec. 21 were 858 Bcf,
25.5 percent below the five-year
average and down 56 Bcf from the 914
Bcf in storage on Nov. 23, which was

26.8 percent below the five-year
average. The Dec. 21 gas storage level
for the South-Central Region was down
278 Bcf from a year ago. r

VOGA-Backed Event Helps Middle Schoolers
Learn About Energy
CLINTWOOD, VA.-The Virginia
Oil & Gas Association reports that a
team of sixth graders from Ridgeview
Middle School in Clintwood, Va.
captured the first Virginia Energy Bowl.
The event was organized by VOGA, the
American Petroleum Institute, Virginia
Coal and Energy Alliance (VCEA), and
the Virginia Cooperative Extension, an
extension of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and Virginia State University.
The program, piloted in Dickenson
County, Va., by VOGA and VCEA, is
aimed at sixth-grade students. They
received study guides earlier in the
semester to prepare for the
competition. Energy Bowl questions
correlate to Virginia Standards of
Learning (SOL) material, VOGA
notes. The guides were reviewed by
VOGA, VCEA, the Virginia
Department of Mines, Minerals and
Energy, API and Virginia Cooperative
Extension agents.
"VOGA worked with VCEA on
this joint project to raise awareness of
the importance of energy in our daily
lives," says VOGA Public Relations

Director Beth Stockner. "The
questions developed touch on all
forms of energy, and also factor in
math skills and more to match what
Virginia SOL expectations are for
sixth graders."
According to Barbara Altizer,
VCEA's director of education and
outreach, the groups worked for
several years to create the energy bowl
format. "Developing the questions and
sharing them with others for review as
to accuracy and correlation to the
standards of learning was a critical
component of the project. We are so
pleased to finally see this day come,"
she applauds.
The inaugural Virginia Energy
Bowl saw the Ridgeview Middle
School team of Ashley Goodman,
Ashley Price, Cameron Deel,
LeaChelle Boggs and Ryder Bowens
win the eight-team, double elimination
academic tournament, the groups note.
According to the groups, based on the
success of this inaugural program,
they plan to expand the competition to
additional counties next school year. r

Coming In February
Official Convention Section for
OOGA's winter meeting, March 6-8
in Columbus, Oh.

Organizers and participants from Ridgeview Middle School in Clintwood, Va., pose
following the ﬁrst Virginia Energy Bowl. The groups sponsoring the event, which
included the Virginia Oil & Gas Association, say they plan to expand the program in the
next school year.

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