Texas Freeze Led To 10.6% Higher Natural Gas Withdrawals  

Due to the winter storms in February, net natural gas withdrawals from storage this heating season exceeded the five-year average by 10.6 percent, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Friday. The first few months of the 2020/2021 winter heating seasons saw milder temperatures than normal, but the cold snap in February resulted in record demand for heating, while wellheads froze and reduced natural gas production in the United States. As a result, working natural gas in storage in the Lower 48 states as of March 31, 2021—the…