Where this number comes from

US strategic reserve

Every fact below is read from the registers the pipeline itself runs on — the series registry, the derivation register and the gauge definitions — not from prose maintained beside them. If a link or weight here is wrong, the dashboard is computing with the same wrong thing, and the audits fail.

The chain

US strategic reserve us.oil.spr fetched from the publisher
Source
US Energy Information Administration PET.WCSSTUS1.W
Last observation
284.552 mn bbl on 2026-09-18 stored 2026-09-23 21:32 UTC
Ingest scale
× 0.001 publisher units converted to mn bbl at ingest
Sanity bounds
50 … 800 a fetched value outside these fails the series loudly instead of storing a plausible-looking wrong number

What reads this series

Tripwires

The same chain as JSON: /v1/series/us.oil.spr/lineage · raw observations: /v1/series/us.oil.spr/observations