May 29, 2026 · United States

Weekly Crude Balance

How supply and demand lined up for U.S. crude this week.

Partial

Every week, the EIA publishes a snapshot of how much crude oil flowed through the U.S. system.

This page turns domestic production, imports, exports, and refinery demand into a simplified balance equation.

It's not a complete physical accounting. It points to whether supply outpaced demand, demand outpaced supply, or the two came in roughly even.

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  • The balance uses a simplified U.S. crude equation rather than a full refinery accounting model.

What this balance doesn't include

This is a simplified U.S. crude balance. It leaves out the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, product inventories, Cushing hub stocks, global supply and demand, regional variation, refinery outages, and imports or exports by origin.

The equation also compares weekly stock changes with daily flow rates. Those units do not match, so the result points toward a condition rather than a precise accounting identity.