Petroleum & Other Liquids

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Heating Oil and Propane Update

Notice: Changes to Petroleum Marketing Survey Forms for 2013

The Heating Season is Over
The Heating Oil and Propane Update is produced during the winter heating season, which extends from October through March of each year. Data for residential and wholesale prices for heating oil and propane are only collected during the heating season. U.S. distillate and propane supply data, which includes stocks, production, and demand are available at This Week in Petroleum. The Heating Oil and Propane Update will resume publication at the beginning of the next heating season on October 3, 2012.

U.S. Heating Oil and Propane Prices

		change from				change from
Heating Oil	3/19/2012	week ago	year ago	Propane	3/19/2012	week ago	year ago
Residential	4.112	0.007	NA	Residential	2.869	0.001	NA
Wholesale	3.390	0.021	NA	Wholesale	1.244	0.079	NA
Note: Price in dollars per gallon, excluding taxes. Values shown on the graph and corresponding data pages for the previous week may be revised to account for late submissions and corrections.

U.S. Distillate and Propane Supply
Distillate	Propane
Stocks	Stocks
Production	Production
Demand	Demand
Note: Stocks in millions of barrels. Production and Demand in millions of barrels per day. *Demand = Product Supplied; approximately represents consumption of petroleum products because it measures the disappearance of these products from primary sources.

Release Schedule: The data are published weekly and are updated every Wednesday after 1:00 p.m. (Eastern time). For weeks that include Monday holidays, publication is delayed by one day.

U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis