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Table 5c. U.S. Regional Natural Gas Prices Dollars per Thousand Cubic Feet
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Wholesale/Spot
U.S. Average Wellhead	7.26	6.39	6.38	8.08	3.71
Henry Hub Spot Price	9.10	6.94	7.18	9.12	4.03
Residential
New England	15.49	17.55	16.50	17.27	16.78
Middle Atlantic	13.54	15.64	15.01	16.22	15.14
East North Central	11.76	12.38	11.62	12.68	10.97
West North Central	11.85	12.57	12.04	12.14	10.53
South Atlantic	15.61	17.18	16.45	17.12	16.09
East South Central	13.87	15.48	14.12	14.98	13.71
West South Central	12.56	13.46	12.35	13.72	12.04
Mountain	10.90	12.02	10.93	11.26	10.39
Pacific	11.75	12.02	11.98	12.75	10.22
U.S. Average	12.70	13.73	13.03	13.67	12.18
Commercial
New England	13.63	14.93	13.96	14.87	13.08
Middle Atlantic	12.01	12.75	12.14	13.42	11.00
East North Central	10.66	11.41	10.66	11.38	8.90
West North Central	10.60	10.93	10.46	10.82	8.71
South Atlantic	12.90	13.63	12.74	13.72	11.53
East South Central	12.55	13.45	12.34	13.57	11.43
West South Central	10.62	10.68	10.22	11.53	9.05
Mountain	9.46	10.63	9.72	9.99	9.03
Pacific	10.52	10.90	10.86	11.63	9.20
U.S. Average	11.34	12.00	11.31	11.99	9.83
Industrial
New England	12.54	12.91	12.21	13.66	11.54
Middle Atlantic	10.61	11.01	10.95	13.05	9.64
East North Central	9.83	9.74	9.62	10.57	7.73
West North Central	8.86	8.44	7.95	9.23	5.88
South Atlantic	10.41	9.72	9.24	11.63	7.29
East South Central	9.68	9.64	8.58	10.53	6.50
West South Central	7.97	6.89	6.90	9.04	4.10
Mountain	8.37	9.49	8.92	9.35	7.23
Pacific	7.14	7.96	8.35	10.07	7.58
U.S. Average	8.56	7.87	7.65	9.58	5.23


	- = no data available
	Notes: The approximate break between historical and forecast values is shown with historical data printed in bold; estimates and forecasts in italics.
	Regions refer to U.S. Census divisions.
	See "Census division" in EIA's Energy Glossary (http://www.eia.doe.gov/glossary/index.html) for a list of States in each region.
	Historical data: Latest data available from Energy Information Administration databases supporting the Natural Gas Monthly, DOE/EIA-0130.
	Natural gas Henry Hub spot price from NGI's Daily Gas Price Index (http://Intelligencepress.com).
	Minor discrepancies with published historical data are due to independent rounding.
	Projections: Generated by simulation of the EIA Regional Short-Term Energy Model.