据油价网休斯敦报道，美国能源信息署(EIA)11月16日表示，在今年4月至10月的天然气再注满期间，美国天然气库存量接近2016年以来的最高水平。

根据EIA来自其上周最新的每周天然气库存报告中的统计数据，在再注满季节——每年4月1日至10月31日——结束时，美国库存的可使用天然气总量达到了3.92万亿立方英尺，接近从2016年11月中旬达到的创纪录高点的4.047万亿立方英尺。

今年美国的再注满季节从4月1日开始，天然气库存高于此前5年的平均水平。在4月1日，可使用天然气库存为2.006万亿立方英尺，比过去4年4月1日的平均总库存量多出了3140亿立方英尺。

EIA称，在注入季节，库存的天然气净增加量比5年平均水平少了大约2%，比2019年注入季节报告的接近纪录的净注入量2.571万亿立方英尺少了23%。

今年春季和初夏，由于2019/2020年冬季气候温和，以及遏制疫情措施造成的经济放缓导致需求下降，天然气库存量迅速增加。

在8月初前，美国天然气库存量已突破了此前5年同一时候的上限。EIA称，自8月份以来，天然气产量的下降和相对稳定的需求减缓了每周天然气注入的速度。

根据EIA最新的《每周天然气库存》报告，截至11月6日，美国可使用的天然气库存量为3.927万亿立方英尺，比前一周增加了80亿立方英尺。这些库存量处于5年的历史区间，但比去年这个时候高出了1960亿立方英尺，比过去5年平均水平高出了1760亿立方英尺。

李峻 编译自 油价网

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U.S. Natural Gas Stocks Close To Record-High At Refill Season End

Natural gas inventories in the United States ended the injection season between April and October 2020 close to the all-time high from 2016, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday.

At the end of the refill season—which is April 1 to October 31—the amount of working natural gas in storage stood at 3,920 billion cubic feet (Bcf), close to the record of 4,047 Bcf from the middle of November 2016, according to EIA data from its latest weekly natural gas inventory report last week.

The injection season this year began on April 1 with inventories above the previous five-year average. On April 1, working natural gas inventories amounted to 2,006 Bcf, or 314 Bcf more than the average April 1 total in the previous five years.

During the injection season, net additions to inventories were around 2 percent less than the five-year average and 23 percent less than the near-record net injections of 2,571 Bcf reported during the 2019 injection season, the EIA said.

In the spring and early summer this year, the amount of natural gas in storage increased rapidly due to the milder 2019/2020 winter and decreased demand in the economic slowdown caused by measures to contain the pandemic.

By early August, U.S natural gas inventories had jumped above the upper bound of the previous five-year range for that time of the year. Lower natural production and relatively stable demand have slowed the rate of weekly gas injections since August, the EIA said.

According to the latest EIA Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report, working gas in storage was 3,927 Bcf as of November 6, up by 8 Bcf from the previous week. The stocks were within the five-year historical range but were 196 Bcf higher than this time last year and 176 Bcf above the five-year average.