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Posted November 13, 2014Today in Energy
Rail shipments of oil and petroleum products through October up 13% over year-ago period ›
U.S. rail traffic, including carloadings of all commodity types, has increased 4.5% through October 2014 compared to the same period in 2013. Crude oil and petroleum products had the second-biggest increase in carloadings through the first 10 months of this year, with these shipments occurring in parts of the country where there is also strong demand to move coal and grain by rail. More›
Source: EIA, based on Association of American Railroads
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Data Highlights
WTI crude oil futures price
11/12/2014: $77.18/bbl
down$1.50 from week earlier
down$15.86 from year earlier
Natural gas futures price
11/12/2014: $4.185/mmBtu
down$0.009 from week earlier
up$0.568 from year earlier
Retail heating oil price
11/10/2014: $3.42 /gal
down$0.016 from week earlier
down$0.395 from year earlier
Crude oil inventories
11/7/2014: 378.5 mmbbl
down1.7 mmbbl from week earlier
down9.6 mmbbl from year earlier
Weekly coal production
11/8/2014: 18.883 million tons
down0.105 million tons from week earlier
up0.052 million tons from year earlier
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