the us energy information administration reported on thursday that us naturalgas supplies in storage rose by 41 billion cubic feet for the week ended july 14 analysts had called for a storage increase of 48 billion cubic feet on average according to a survey conducted by sp global commodity insights total working gas in storage for the week was at 2971 trillion cubic feet up 575 billion cubic feet from a year ago and 360 billion cubic feet above the fiveyear average the government said in thursday dealings august natural gas ngq23 traded at 2738 per million british thermal units up 135 cents or 52 on the new york mercantile exchange prices traded at 273 ahead of the supply data