US jet fuel inventory ·EIA week ending August 21, 2026
US jet fuel storage holds 45.7 M bbl as of August 21, 2026, down 1.2% week over week. It is currently drawing faster than usual.
The Desk's read
The draw is what stands out, though the barrels tell a calmer story. US jet fuel stocks, the kerosene-type fuel airliners burn, fell 3.6% over the past 30 days, and that trailing 8-report change sits at the 7th percentile of all such stretches in the 44-year record, a genuinely drain-side pace. Yet at 45.7 MM bbl as of 2026-08-21 the pile holds the 96th percentile of that record; a fast draw from an ample store still leaves it deep. We watch the pace in next Wednesday's EIA weekly report.
US kerosene-type jet fuel inventory
September 3, 2021 to August 21, 2026
Weekly US kerosene-type jet fuel stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report.
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About this series
Kerosene-type jet fuel ending stocks held in US refineries, bulk terminals, and pipelines. Reported weekly by the U.S. EIA alongside the crude, gasoline, and distillate totals. The barrel's clearest read on aviation demand.
Today's reading sits near the top of the EIA record going back to 1982. US jet fuel stocks are ample relative to their own history.
Weekly US kerosene-type jet fuel stocks, in millions of barrels. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Updated weekly. View this series at eia.gov ↗
US jet fuel inventory: common questions
- What are US jet fuel inventories?
- They are the stocks of kerosene-type jet fuel held in refineries, bulk terminals, and pipelines across the United States. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the total every week in its Weekly Petroleum Status Report, in the ending-stocks series this page reads directly.
- What is kerosene-type jet fuel?
- It is the kerosene cut of the barrel refined to aviation specification, the fuel commercial airliners and most military jets burn. The EIA's weekly stocks series covers this grade specifically; naphtha-type jet fuel faded out of wide use decades ago and is not part of this figure.
More questions
- Why do jet fuel inventories matter?
- Jet fuel is the barrel's clearest read on air travel and air freight. Stocks build when refiners make more than airlines burn and draw when flying outpaces output, so the level and its direction track aviation demand weeks before passenger statistics appear.
- How often are jet fuel inventories 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.