Updated October 3, 2026
Oil and gas inventories
DOE: the EIA's weekly petroleum and natural gas storage numbers, each week's build or draw, and where every series sits in its five-year range.
What it is
DOE opens the US Energy Information Administration's two weekly inventory reports in one pane: the Weekly Petroleum Status Report (Wednesdays) and the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (Thursdays). NGS opens the same pane on its gas tab. It is free on every plan, signed in or not.
Each row shows the latest week, the change on the week, the change against the same week a year ago, the distance from the five-year average, and a bar placing the value inside its five-year range. Selecting a row charts that series over the year: this year's line, last year's, the five-year average, and the five-year minimum to maximum as a shaded band. A one-line read under the chart says the same in words, worked out from those numbers by fixed rules, for example "Draw of 3.2M bbl, larger than the 5-year average draw of 1.1M bbl for this week."
Series
| Tab | Row | EIA series | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crude | Commercial crude, excluding the SPR | WCESTUS1 | million barrels |
| Crude | Cushing, Oklahoma | W_EPC0_SAX_YCUOK_MBBL | million barrels |
| Crude | Strategic Petroleum Reserve | WCSSTUS1 | million barrels |
| Products | Total motor gasoline | WGTSTUS1 | million barrels |
| Products | Distillate fuel oil | WDISTUS1 | million barrels |
| Products | Kerosene-type jet fuel | WKJSTUS1 | million barrels |
| Products | Propane/propylene | WPRSTUS1 | million barrels |
| Products | Refinery utilization | WPULEUS3 | percent of operable capacity |
| Products | Crude input to refineries | WCRRIUS2 | thousand barrels a day |
| Products | Crude oil imports | WCRIMUS2 | thousand barrels a day |
| Products | Crude oil exports | WCREXUS2 | thousand barrels a day |
| Products | Total product supplied, the demand proxy | WRPUPUS2 | thousand barrels a day |
| Gas storage | Lower 48 working gas | NW2_EPG0_SWO_R48_BCF | Bcf |
| Gas storage | East, Midwest, Mountain, Pacific, South Central | NW2_EPG0_SWO_R31_BCF to R35 | Bcf |
| Gas storage | South Central salt and nonsalt | NW2_EPG0_SSO_R33_BCF, NW2_EPG0_SNO_R33_BCF | Bcf |
Every EIA week ends on a Friday. Stocks are the level that Friday; flows are the week's daily average.
The five-year range
The range, the average and the "vs 5Y" figures use the five calendar years before the latest week's year: for the week ending September 25, 2026, the years 2021 to 2025. The current year never counts toward its own range.
Each earlier year is read on the same calendar day as the current week, between the two weeks that surround that day. The week ending Friday September 25, 2026 is compared with September 25 of each earlier year: in 2025 that day was a Thursday, so the value is read six sevenths of the way from the week ending September 19 to the week ending September 26. This is how the EIA places earlier years on the report date for its own five-year averages, and it keeps a comparison from reaching up to six days later in the season, which matching by week number would. On the week ending September 25, 2026 the lower 48 five-year average comes out at 3,334 Bcf against the 3,336 Bcf the EIA published, and the crude, gasoline, distillate and propane distances round to the 2%, 7%, 14% and 20% in the EIA's summary.
- The year ago figure is the published week nearest the same day last year (September 26, 2025 for September 25, 2026), as in the EIA's tables.
- The five-year average build or draw for a week is the average, over the same years, of the change into that day from seven days earlier.
- The range bar puts the five-year low at the left edge and the high at the right; a value outside the range sits beyond the edge and the row says so.
- A year whose surrounding weeks are not published (propane/propylene starts in 2015, Cushing in 2004, gas storage in 2010) is left out, and the pane says when a range holds fewer than five years.
- Week numbers on the chart count Fridays: week 1 is the year's first Friday. A year that starts on a Friday (2027) has a 53rd week, compared with December 31 of each earlier year like any other day.
- Holidays move the day a report comes out, not the week it covers, so no week is shifted for them.
Release schedule
The header line gives the latest week, when its report came out, and when the next one is due. The standard times are Wednesday 10:30 a.m. Eastern for petroleum and Thursday 10:30 a.m. Eastern for gas. Holiday moves come from the EIA's own schedules, read once a day: the Weekly Petroleum Status Report schedule and the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report schedule. A move further out than the EIA has published yet shows as the standard time until it is listed.
Gloom Cloud reads the EIA files from the scheduled release time, every five minutes for the first hour and less often after that, so the new week usually shows within a quarter hour of the release.
Commands and tools
| Surface | How |
|---|---|
| Pane | DOE, or NGS for the gas tab |
| CLI | gloomberb fn DOE, gloomberb fn DOE --tab gas, --json for the structured report |
| Screenshot | gloomberb shot DOE |
Data and attribution
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report and Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report. The numbers are read from the EIA's public history workbooks on its data pages (eia.gov/dnav/pet and eia.gov/dnav/ng), which carry the full weekly history; the gas storage report's own JSON on ir.eia.gov holds only the current week behind a signed redirect, so it is not used. EIA data is in the public domain. Gloom Cloud stores the weeks and rereads the last quarter of a year each time, so EIA revisions land.