EIA Crude Oil Inventories: release dates, results and history
EIA Crude Oil Inventories last printed -3.19M on Wed, Oct 7, 2026 against a 1.90M consensus forecast and a 0.92M prior, a -2.04 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
If you trade oil, this is the main scheduled event on the tape. A surprise draw or build reprices WTI within seconds of 10:30. Traders line it up against the API figure from the evening before, then go looking underneath, at Cushing, because what sits in the tanks at that delivery point is what shapes the WTI curve. String together a run of draws, or a run of builds, and you have set the energy leg of the inflation trade for weeks.
Printed below forecast. That gap is 2.04 times the size of a normal gap for this indicator.
The trend
DESK-CAPTURED PRINTS · LAST 15
+17.40-7.2
2026-072026-10
Every print the desk has captured for this series, drawn as a trend. The graded history, with consensus and the standard-deviation surprise on every row, comes through the Helious API.
How it moves Treasuries
Nothing here reaches Treasuries directly. The route runs crude into gasoline, gasoline into what people expect headline inflation to be, and only then into breakevens. So a draw that spikes oil leans bearish bonds and a build leans the other way, and by the time it has travelled that far the move is usually small. See it scored live on the Helious desk,
or read how the standard-deviation surprise is computed.
The 6 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the API.
FAQ
What was the latest EIA Crude Oil Inventories print?
EIA Crude Oil Inventories last printed -3.19M on Wed, Oct 7, 2026 against a 1.90M consensus forecast and a 0.92M prior, a -2.04 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.
When is the next EIA Crude Oil Inventories release?
The next EIA Crude Oil Inventories release is Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET, with a consensus forecast of 0.20M. Helious posts the print, the surprise against consensus and a verdict the second it lands.
Was the latest EIA Crude Oil Inventories print a beat or a miss?
It printed below the consensus forecast: -3.19M against 1.90M, a -2.04 standard-deviation surprise. The standard deviation is measured against this indicator's own history of consensus misses, so the same gap means more on a series that rarely surprises.
