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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 10/15/2012 week ago year ago Propane 10/15/2012 week ago year ago
Residential 4.032 values are up0.054 values are up0.264 Residential 2.369 values are down0.007 values are down0.432
Wholesale 3.348 values are up0.067 values are up0.212 Wholesale 0.993 values are up0.019 values are down0.566
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 10/12/2012 week ago year ago Propane 10/12/2012 week ago year ago
Stocks 118.7 values are down2.2 values are down31.1 Stocks 74.628 values are down1.268 values are up15.699
Production 4.484 values are up0.146 values are up0.105 Production 1.286 values are down0.030 values are up0.175
Demand 3.879 values are up0.057 values are down0.305 Demand 1.462 values are up0.239 values are up0.524
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.