By Nicole Friedman NEW YORK–Natural gas slipped Wednesday on expectations that weekly government storage data will show a larger-than-average increase for this time of year. Natural gas for July delivery settled down 5 cents, or 1.1%, at $4.659 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Analysts and traders expect the U.S. Energy Information Administration to report that storage levels rose by 109 billion cubic feet in the week ended June 13, according to a Wall Street Journal survey. The EIA is scheduled to release the data on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. EDT. That would exceed the 97-bcf injection seen in the same week last year and the 88-bcf five-year average injection for the week. If the storage estimate is correct, total supply will be 31% below the five-year average for the same week. Natural-gas inventories were depleted by a long, frigid winter, and prices remain […]