When is the weekly storage report released?

Every **Thursday at 10:30 AM ET** by EIA. This is one of the most market-moving energy data releases — natural gas futures often swing 5-10% on storage surprises.

EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server for OpenAI Agents SDK 7 tools — connect in under 2 minutes

Name: EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence
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The OpenAI Agents SDK enables production-grade agent workflows in Python. Connect EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence through Vinkius and your agents gain typed, auto-discovered tools with built-in guardrails. no manual schema definitions required.

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python

import asyncio
from agents import Agent, Runner
from agents.mcp import MCPServerStreamableHttp

async def main():
    # Your Vinkius token. get it at cloud.vinkius.com
    async with MCPServerStreamableHttp(
        url="https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    ) as mcp_server:

        agent = Agent(
            name="EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence Assistant",
            instructions=(
                "You help users interact with EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence. "
                "You have access to 7 tools."
            ),
            mcp_servers=[mcp_server],
        )

        result = await Runner.run(
            agent, "List all available tools from EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence"
        )
        print(result.final_output)

asyncio.run(main())

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About EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server

The definitive natural gas data source. From Henry Hub pricing to weekly storage reports, this server covers every aspect of the U.S. natural gas market.

The OpenAI Agents SDK auto-discovers all 7 tools from EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence through native MCP integration. Build agents with built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns. chain multiple agents where one queries EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence, another analyzes results, and a third generates reports, all orchestrated through Vinkius.

What you can do

Prices — Henry Hub spot, citygate, wellhead, industrial, and residential prices
Storage — Weekly underground storage levels by region (the Thursday report)
Production — Gross withdrawals, marketed production, shale gas by state
Trade — LNG imports/exports by terminal, pipeline trade with Canada/Mexico
Reserves — Proved reserves and exploration wells
Consumption — By sector: residential, commercial, industrial, electric power

The EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server exposes 7 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to OpenAI Agents SDK in under two minutes — no API keys to rotate, no infrastructure to provision, no vendor lock-in. Your configuration, your data, your control.

How to Connect EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP

Follow these steps to integrate the EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK.

Install the SDK

Run pip install openai-agents in your Python environment

Replace the token

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your Vinkius token from cloud.vinkius.com

Run the script

Save the code above and run it: python agent.py

Explore tools

The agent will automatically discover 7 tools from EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence

Why Use OpenAI Agents SDK with the EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server

OpenAI Agents SDK provides unique advantages when paired with EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence through the Model Context Protocol.

Native MCP integration via `MCPServerSse`, pass the URL and the SDK auto-discovers all tools with full type safety

Built-in guardrails, tracing, and handoff patterns let you build production-grade agents without reinventing safety infrastructure

Lightweight and composable: chain multiple agents and MCP servers in a single pipeline with minimal boilerplate

First-party OpenAI support ensures optimal compatibility with GPT models for tool calling and structured output

EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence + OpenAI Agents SDK Use Cases

Practical scenarios where OpenAI Agents SDK combined with the EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Automated workflows: build agents that query EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence, process the data, and trigger follow-up actions autonomously

Multi-agent orchestration: create specialist agents. one queries EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence, another analyzes results, a third generates reports

Data enrichment pipelines: stream data through EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence tools and transform it with OpenAI models in a single async loop

Customer support bots: agents query EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence to resolve tickets, look up records, and update statuses without human intervention

EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Tools for OpenAI Agents SDK (7)

These 7 tools become available when you connect EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence to OpenAI Agents SDK via MCP:

get_natgas_consumption

By state and nationally. Get natural gas consumption by sector

get_natgas_prices

Henry Hub spot price is the benchmark for North American gas trading. Get natural gas prices: Henry Hub, citygate, wellhead, industrial, residential

get_natgas_production

Get natural gas production: gross withdrawals, marketed production

get_natgas_reserves

Get natural gas proved reserves and exploration data

get_natgas_storage

The weekly storage report is a major market-moving event for gas trading. Get underground natural gas storage levels

get_natgas_summary

S. natural gas balance: total production, consumption, imports, exports, and storage changes. Get natural gas supply and demand overview

get_natgas_trade

Get natural gas imports, exports, and pipeline flows

Example Prompts for EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence in OpenAI Agents SDK

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your OpenAI Agents SDK agent to start working with EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence immediately.

"What is the Henry Hub natural gas price?"

"What is the current natural gas storage level?"

"How much LNG does the U.S. export?"

Troubleshooting EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK

Common issues when connecting EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence to OpenAI Agents SDK through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

MCPServerStreamableHttp not found

Ensure you have the latest version: pip install --upgrade openai-agents

Agent not calling tools

Make sure your prompt explicitly references the task the tools can help with.

EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence + OpenAI Agents SDK FAQ

Common questions about integrating EIA Natural Gas — Gas Market Intelligence MCP Server with OpenAI Agents SDK.

How does the OpenAI Agents SDK connect to MCP?

Use MCPServerSse(url=...) to create a server connection. The SDK auto-discovers all tools and makes them available to your agent with full type information.