Gulf Coast distillate inventory ·EIA week ending September 4, 2026
Gulf Coast distillate storage holds 42.5 M bbl as of September 4, 2026, down 0.4% week over week.
Gulf Coast (PADD 3) distillate inventory
September 17, 2021 to September 4, 2026
Shaded band: the same calendar week's range across the five prior years; dashed line: their average. The record low and high are on the range strip above, not in the band.
Weekly PADD 3 distillate fuel oil stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
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About this series
Distillate fuel oil, the category covering diesel and heating oil, held in tanks and terminals across PADD 3, the Gulf Coast district. Reported weekly by the U.S. EIA as one of five regional cuts of the national distillate series. The Gulf Coast refines far more diesel than it burns and ships the surplus out by pipeline and export dock. PADD 3 stocks move with refinery output and export demand, and the district is the source pool the East Coast draws on through the Colonial Pipeline.
Since 2015, today's reading ranks in the 45th percentile. This is the range where Gulf Coast distillate stocks have spent most of the modern era. It is 0.5M bbl below its same-week five-year average. Across the full EIA record back to 1990 it ranks in the 76th percentile; storage capacity, pipelines, and production have shifted enough since then that the modern cohort is the better yardstick for today's operating conditions.
Weekly PADD 3 distillate fuel oil stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Updated weekly. View this series at eia.gov ↗
Gulf Coast distillate inventory: common questions
- What is PADD 3?
- PADD 3 is the Gulf Coast district of the Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts, the five regions the EIA uses to report US petroleum statistics. It covers Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Texas. The district lines were drawn for World War II fuel allocation and remain the standard regional cut of US oil data.
- What does this page track?
- The total volume of distillate fuel oil, covering diesel and heating oil, held in tanks and terminals across PADD 3 (Gulf Coast). It is the EIA's regional cut of the same weekly series the national distillate page tracks, and the five districts sum to the US total.
More questions
- Why do Gulf Coast distillate inventories matter?
- The Gulf Coast refines far more diesel than it burns and ships the surplus out by pipeline and export dock. PADD 3 stocks move with refinery output and export demand, and the district is the source pool the East Coast draws on through the Colonial Pipeline.
- How often is this figure updated?
- The EIA publishes the figure every week, typically Wednesday around 10:30 a.m. Eastern for the prior Friday's week. This page reads that same EIA series and shows the latest reading with its as-of date.