{
  "publisher": "Oilfield Tailgate",
  "sourceFamily": "U.S. Energy Information Administration",
  "reviewedAt": "2026-10-27",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "steo",
      "title": "Short-Term Energy Outlook",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Read the monthly outlook and its assumptions before planning market conversations.",
      "cadence": "Monthly; preserve forecast vintage",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Forecasts change with assumptions and do not establish a particular company’s plans."
    },
    {
      "id": "steo-tables",
      "title": "Drilling productivity, completions and DUCs",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/data.php",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Use Tables 10a and 10b for regional drilling metrics and shale/tight formation production.",
      "cadence": "Monthly",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Recent well data include imputation; current regions do not separately list legacy Anadarko. Regional metrics do not measure a service company’s performance."
    },
    {
      "id": "crude",
      "title": "State crude-oil production",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_crd_crpdn_adc_mbblpd_m.htm",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Compare Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and other state daily-average production estimates.",
      "cadence": "Monthly; reporting lag and revisions",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Units are thousand barrels per day. EIA estimates may differ from regulator-reported totals."
    },
    {
      "id": "psm",
      "title": "Petroleum Supply Monthly",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/monthly/",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Research supply, inventories, refining, transportation and state production.",
      "cadence": "Monthly",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Preliminary history can be revised. Use current tables and navigators; old PDF/CSV report paths were discontinued."
    },
    {
      "id": "ngm",
      "title": "Natural Gas Monthly",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/monthly/",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Research production, deliveries, storage, consumption and prices by geography.",
      "cadence": "Monthly",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Gross withdrawals, marketed gas and dry gas differ. State averages are not a customer’s fuel contract."
    },
    {
      "id": "reserves",
      "title": "Proved oil and natural-gas reserves",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/crudeoilreserves/",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Understand long-term state/play resource context and reserve changes.",
      "cadence": "Annual",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Lagged economic estimates; not a permit list, asset appraisal or an individual operator’s reserves certification."
    },
    {
      "id": "wpsr",
      "title": "Weekly Petroleum Status Report",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Follow weekly stocks, refinery activity and petroleum balances.",
      "cadence": "Weekly; check holiday schedule",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Weekly estimates and monthly/final statistics have different methods and coverage."
    },
    {
      "id": "wngsr",
      "title": "Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report",
      "href": "https://ir.eia.gov/ngs/ngs.html",
      "topic": "Oil, gas & drilling",
      "purpose": "Track working-gas stocks and regional seasonal comparisons.",
      "cadence": "Weekly; check report release",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Survey estimates include sampling uncertainty. Storage stocks are not pipeline capacity or available supply for a specific customer."
    },
    {
      "id": "pipelines",
      "title": "Natural-gas pipelines, LNG and storage",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/data.php",
      "topic": "Facilities & projects",
      "purpose": "Find reported infrastructure projects and capacity sources for further company research.",
      "cadence": "Product-specific periodic releases",
      "status": "Verify export",
      "limit": "Capacity is not actual flow or commercially available capacity. Confirm project status with developer and regulator evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "refinery",
      "title": "Refinery Capacity Report",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/refinerycapacity/",
      "topic": "Facilities & projects",
      "purpose": "Find refinery facilities and dated capacity/ownership research leads.",
      "cadence": "Annual snapshot",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "A facility record does not establish a maintenance need, buying contact or current turnaround schedule."
    },
    {
      "id": "ngannual",
      "title": "Natural Gas Annual and company respondents",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/annual/",
      "topic": "Facilities & projects",
      "purpose": "Research selected gas companies, storage and supply/delivery records.",
      "cadence": "Annual",
      "status": "Verify export",
      "limit": "Not a complete upstream operator census. Match respondent, operator, owner and parent separately."
    },
    {
      "id": "imports",
      "title": "Company-level petroleum imports",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/imports/companylevel/",
      "topic": "Facilities & projects",
      "purpose": "Find importer/refiner identities for downstream research.",
      "cadence": "Monthly",
      "status": "Verify export",
      "limit": "Importer identity does not establish ownership, purchasing authority or upstream production."
    },
    {
      "id": "860",
      "title": "EIA-860: plants, generators and owners",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860/",
      "topic": "Power & geothermal",
      "purpose": "Research existing/planned generators, plants, utilities and ownership links.",
      "cadence": "Annual",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Keep company, plant and generator separate. Coverage is plants with at least 1 MW combined nameplate capacity."
    },
    {
      "id": "860m",
      "title": "EIA-860M: monthly generator inventory",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia860m/",
      "topic": "Power & geothermal",
      "purpose": "Find reported changes in existing, proposed and retired generation, including geothermal.",
      "cadence": "Monthly preliminary inventory",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "EIA’s estimates are not facility capacity commitments. A reported plan requires independent qualification."
    },
    {
      "id": "923",
      "title": "EIA-923: generation, fuels and plant operations",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia923/",
      "topic": "Power & geothermal",
      "purpose": "Understand plant generation, fuel consumption, receipts and selected environmental schedules.",
      "cadence": "Monthly subset plus annual final data",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Does not establish equipment condition, maintenance requirements or permit compliance."
    },
    {
      "id": "861",
      "title": "EIA-861: utility markets and reliability",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/",
      "topic": "Power & geothermal",
      "purpose": "Research utility identities, service counties, sales and reliability measures.",
      "cadence": "Annual",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "County coverage is not an exact service boundary. Average prices are not customer-specific tariffs."
    },
    {
      "id": "930",
      "title": "Hourly Electric Grid Monitor",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/",
      "topic": "Power & geothermal",
      "purpose": "Explore regional demand, generation mix and interchange.",
      "cadence": "Hourly measures with differing reporting lags",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Bulk-grid data are not site SCADA or local outage alerts; modeled CO2 is not measured facility emissions."
    },
    {
      "id": "renewables",
      "title": "Renewables and geothermal data",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/renewable/",
      "topic": "Power & geothermal",
      "purpose": "Connect geothermal and other generation sources to the broader energy system.",
      "cadence": "Mixed product frequencies",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Early exploration and EGS wells can precede listed generation. Continue DOE awards, developer and drilling-permit research."
    },
    {
      "id": "data-centers",
      "title": "Data-center energy pilot announcement",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/pressroom/releases/press585.php",
      "topic": "Power & geothermal",
      "purpose": "Understand the scope of EIA’s announced 2026 data-center survey work.",
      "cadence": "Announcement dated March 25, 2026",
      "status": "Verify export",
      "limit": "Collection announcement is not published pilot results or a comprehensive buyer directory."
    },
    {
      "id": "seds",
      "title": "State Energy Data System",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/state/seds/seds-data-complete.php?sid=OK",
      "topic": "States & environment",
      "purpose": "Compare state energy production, consumption, costs, intensity and energy-related CO2.",
      "cadence": "Annual history; complete through 2024 at review",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "State historical estimates do not establish a facility’s demand, local supply or legal obligations."
    },
    {
      "id": "mer",
      "title": "Monthly Energy Review",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/",
      "topic": "States & environment",
      "purpose": "Research national energy balances, fuel comparisons, trends and conversion appendices.",
      "cadence": "Monthly",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Many recent observations are preliminary; preserve revised histories and changes in methodology."
    },
    {
      "id": "mecs",
      "title": "Manufacturing energy benchmarks",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/consumption/manufacturing/",
      "topic": "States & environment",
      "purpose": "Study industrial energy uses and frame measurement/baseline questions.",
      "cadence": "Survey-year data; 2022 final results at review",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Industry aggregates do not identify named customers, current plant loads or product savings."
    },
    {
      "id": "cbecs",
      "title": "Commercial building energy benchmarks",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/consumption/commercial/",
      "topic": "States & environment",
      "purpose": "Explore energy use by building type and end use.",
      "cadence": "2018 final survey results at review",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "A historical benchmark is not a particular property’s current bill or equipment requirement."
    },
    {
      "id": "recs",
      "title": "Residential energy survey",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/",
      "topic": "States & environment",
      "purpose": "Understand household characteristics, uses of energy and energy costs.",
      "cadence": "Survey releases; check data-year and scope",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Preliminary 2024 characteristics do not establish final 2024 consumption; do not mix survey vintages."
    },
    {
      "id": "emissions",
      "title": "State energy-related CO2",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/environment/emissions/state/",
      "topic": "States & environment",
      "purpose": "Teach energy-source and sector context for environmental discussions.",
      "cadence": "Annual",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Not a complete greenhouse-gas inventory, safety/incident dataset or facility compliance determination."
    },
    {
      "id": "explained",
      "title": "Energy Explained",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/",
      "topic": "Learning & stories",
      "purpose": "Learn how fuels, electricity, energy markets and end uses fit together.",
      "cadence": "Article-specific updates",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Use appropriate technical source documents for engineering and operating procedures."
    },
    {
      "id": "units",
      "title": "Energy units and conversion references",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators/energy-conversion-calculators.php",
      "topic": "Learning & stories",
      "purpose": "Check the difference between power, energy, fuel volume and heat content.",
      "cadence": "Factors can vary by fuel and year",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Use actual fuel specifications and unit checks for engineering or cost estimates."
    },
    {
      "id": "kids",
      "title": "Energy Kids",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/kids/",
      "topic": "Learning & stories",
      "purpose": "Explore family activities, energy history, vocabulary and questions.",
      "cadence": "Learning resource",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Energy Ant and third-party materials have separate rights; link to lessons rather than copying protected artwork."
    },
    {
      "id": "teachers",
      "title": "Teacher lesson plans",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/kids/for-teachers/lesson-plans/",
      "topic": "Learning & stories",
      "purpose": "Find age-appropriate classroom and family learning extensions.",
      "cadence": "Grade-based learning directory",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Some lessons are credited to NEED or other providers. Check rights and suitability before reuse."
    },
    {
      "id": "tie",
      "title": "Today in Energy",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/",
      "topic": "Learning & stories",
      "purpose": "Find source-backed subjects for newsletters, original posts and podcast preparation.",
      "cadence": "Several times each week",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Check underlying dates and commercial source credits; a headline is a research lead."
    },
    {
      "id": "aeo",
      "title": "Annual Energy Outlook",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/",
      "topic": "Outlooks & maps",
      "purpose": "Compare long-term alternative futures and assumptions.",
      "cadence": "Edition-specific scenarios; 2026 at review",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Keep case names and vintage. Scenarios do not prove a buyer’s future demand or an investment return."
    },
    {
      "id": "ieo",
      "title": "International Energy Outlook",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/ieo/",
      "topic": "Outlooks & maps",
      "purpose": "Study long-term regional energy scenarios.",
      "cadence": "2023 edition at review",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "The latest landing-page edition is not automatically a current-year forecast."
    },
    {
      "id": "international",
      "title": "International energy portal",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/international/",
      "topic": "Outlooks & maps",
      "purpose": "Find country data, analysis and energy-security topics.",
      "cadence": "Country/product-specific",
      "status": "Verify export",
      "limit": "Some portal pages require rendered/export verification; check each country’s observation date."
    },
    {
      "id": "maps",
      "title": "Energy maps and GIS",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/maps/",
      "topic": "Outlooks & maps",
      "purpose": "Discover infrastructure and basin geography for further research.",
      "cadence": "Layer-specific dates",
      "status": "Verify export",
      "limit": "Layer proximity proves neither interconnection, gas deliverability, permits nor emergency conditions."
    },
    {
      "id": "open-data",
      "title": "Open Data and bulk downloads",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/opendata/",
      "topic": "Data tools",
      "purpose": "Use documented API v2, downloads and manifests for reusable statistics.",
      "cadence": "Underlying product cadence varies",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Bulk download needs no key. API needs a registered key; preserve units, pagination, revisions and attribution."
    },
    {
      "id": "schedule",
      "title": "Release calendar",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/reports/upcoming.php",
      "topic": "Data tools",
      "purpose": "Check when a chosen product is expected to update.",
      "cadence": "Report-specific Eastern time",
      "status": "Current product",
      "limit": "Dates can shift; each report’s current release page governs."
    },
    {
      "id": "well-rates",
      "title": "Historical wells by production rate",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/wells/",
      "topic": "Archives",
      "purpose": "Study historical mature-well distributions and industry structure.",
      "cadence": "Updates ended October 15, 2026",
      "status": "Archive",
      "limit": "Not a current well inventory or proof that a specific well needs intervention."
    },
    {
      "id": "old-dpr",
      "title": "Historical Drilling Productivity Report",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/drilling/",
      "topic": "Archives",
      "purpose": "Read historical methods and older basin context.",
      "cadence": "Standalone release ended May 2024",
      "status": "Archive",
      "limit": "Current successor is STEO; do not silently combine incompatible regions or methods."
    },
    {
      "id": "old-ng-weekly",
      "title": "Historical Natural Gas Weekly Update",
      "href": "https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/weekly/",
      "topic": "Archives",
      "purpose": "Read historical market commentary.",
      "cadence": "Final issue January 22, 2026",
      "status": "Archive",
      "limit": "Use WNGSR and its Supplement for current weekly information."
    }
  ]
}