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Heating Oil and Propane Update


Notice: Changes to Petroleum Marketing Survey Forms for 2013

Weekly heating oil and propane prices are only collected during the heating season, which extends from October through March.

U.S. Heating Oil and Propane Prices
Residential Heating Oil Graph. Residential Propane Graph.
  change from   change from
Heating Oil 10/8/2012 week ago year ago Propane 10/8/2012 week ago year ago
Residential 3.976 values are up0.017 values are up0.294 Residential 2.378 values are up0.016 values are down0.402
Wholesale 3.281 values are up0.013 values are up0.315 Wholesale 0.974 values are up0.036 values are down0.550
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
U.S. Distillate Stocks Graph. U.S. Propane Stocks Graph.
  change from   change from
Distillate 10/5/2012 week ago year ago Propane 10/5/2012 week ago year ago
Stocks 120.9 values are down3.2 values are down33.1 Stocks 75.896 values are up0.312 values are up18.003
Production 4.338 values are down0.253 values are down0.076 Production 1.316 values are up0.093 values are up0.146
Demand 3.822 values are down0.270 values are down0.247 Demand 1.223 values are up0.226 values are up0.113
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.