US to have 'enough gas' stored to meet colder winter: EIA's Caruso

Washington (Platts)--18Oct2005

Despite hurricanes Katrina and Rita, there will be "enough gas in storage
to meet even a 10% colder-than-normal winter, but at higher costs," the chief
adminsitrator of the US Energy Information Administration, Guy Caruso, told
the Senate Energy Committee on Tuesday.
     In prepared testimony, Caruso said that although gas storage remains
above the five-year average, the hurricanes "reduced the peak storage
achievable over the remainder of the injection season from what was expected
previously."
     Caruso said the expected working gas in storage at the end of the fourth
quarter will be about 2.5 Tcf, or 200 Bcf below the goal level, but about 50
Bcf above the five-year average.

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