the us energy information administration reported on thursday that domestic naturalgas supplies fell by 72 billion cubic feet for the week ended march 17 on average analysts forecast a decline of 71 billion cubic feet in a survey conducted by sp global commodity insights total working gas stocks in storage for the latest week was at 19 trillion cubic feet up 504 billion cubic feet from a year ago and 351 billion cubic feet above the fiveyear average the government said following the data april natural gas ngj23 was up 16 cents or 07 at 2187 per million british thermal units on the new york mercantile exchange prices traded at 2198 before the supply data