US Strategic Petroleum Reserve Stocks
-1.2% YoY · as of Apr 2026 · U.S. Energy Information Administration
US Strategic Petroleum Reserve crude oil ending stocks, thousand barrels, monthly.
1978–2026 · 572 observationssource: U.S. Energy Information Administration · vintage 2026-07-04
Methodology
EIA series MCSSTUS1 (U.S. ending stocks of crude oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, thousand barrels), monthly, via the EIA API v2. Genuinely volatile at the start of history: the SPR was created in 1977 and its first fill-up months compound from a near-zero base, each exceeding a 40% month-over-month increase.