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US petroleum inventories
How much crude oil the US is sitting on this week, vs the 5-year average.
424.4 Mbbl
-1.6% vs 5-year same-week mean
Observed: Aug 7, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC · Source publishes weekly, ~5-day lag.
Interactive chart · hover for date + value · dashed = 5-year same-week mean
▼ -3.91% in windown=12
value · Mbbl5-year same-week meanMay 22, 2026 → Aug 7, 2026
Translation
*Crude inventories* — oil sitting in US refineries and terminals — publish every Wednesday. Builds above the 5y average mean oversupply (Brent drops). Draws below mean tightness (Brent rises).
Methodology
- Source
- US Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Cadence
- Weekly (Wed 10:30 ET)
- Sensors / APIs
- EIA API v2 — petroleum/stoc/wstk
- Baseline
- 5-year same-week mean
- Uncertainty
- EIA preliminary; revised in subsequent weeks
- Known biases
- Hurricane disruptions distort weekly readings
- SPR releases bias commercial-stock framing
Provenance
- Source URL
- https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/
- License
- US Government — public domain
For developers and AI agents
- /signals/eia-weekly-petroleum/brief.md — LLM-citable markdown
- /api/signals/eia-weekly-petroleum — JSON + JSON-LD Dataset