The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Thursday that U.S. natural-gas supplies in storage rose by 110 billion cubic feet for the week ended May 26. Analysts called for a storage increase of 107 billion cubic feet on average, according to a survey conducted by S&P Global Commodity Insights. Total working gas in storage for the latest week was at 2.446 trillion cubic feet, up 557 billion cubic feet from a year ago and 349 billion cubic feet above the five-year average, the government said.
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