A comment related to government reporting from an interview on "The Financial Sense News Hour."

"The same is true as you pointed out in natural gas where the stocks were reported as going up when one day 2 months ago the EIA web page showed that there was a notice to participants that the pressure readings inside the salt-dome storage capacities were so low that the structural integrity of the pressure chambers was called into question. There's a limit below which the pressure would cause the chamber to collapse. This was reported on the website and immediately removed in a matter of hours later. When you look at the official information on storage there is no record of that low pressure reading in the long term EIA natural gas storage chart. So there's clear evidence that the government is playing around with the storage information for natural gas."

http://financialsense.com/fsn/BP/2006/0204.html#seg4

Has anyone heard anything on this, could it have been true?

I haven't been involved with the SPR for a long time, but to my knowledge ,oil is (was) stored in the SPR and NG is (was) not. Therefore I don't understand how a low pressure reading in the SPR could be realted to anything involving NG.