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title: "EIA Crude Oil Inventories: -3.19M (Oct 7, 2026), next Oct 15"
description: EIA Crude Oil Inventories printed -3.19M on Oct 7, 2026 against a 1.90M consensus and a 0.92M prior, a -2.04 standard-deviation surprise.
source: Helious
canonical: "https://helious.io/data/eia-crude-stocks"
---

# EIA Crude Oil Inventories: release dates, results and history


    EIA Crude Oil Inventories last printed -3.19M on Wed, Oct 7, 2026 against a 1.90M consensus forecast and a 0.92M prior, a -2.04 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.

    If you trade oil, this is the main scheduled event on the tape. A surprise draw or build reprices WTI within seconds of 10:30. Traders line it up against the API figure from the evening before, then go looking underneath, at Cushing, because what sits in the tanks at that delivery point is what shapes the WTI curve. String together a run of draws, or a run of builds, and you have set the energy leg of the inflation trade for weeks.




        NEXT RELEASE


      Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET
      Consensus forecast: 0.2M


    Next release **--:--**




      LATEST PRINT: WED, OCT 7, 2026

        -3.19Mactual

        1.90Mforecast
        0.92Mprior
        -2.04std dev vs forecastMAJOR MISS

      [Full print analysis →](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-7fae63498d3ff5c2/eia-crude-oil-stocks-change-3-19m)



      Surprise vs forecast


      −2.04
      std dev
      MAJOR MISS










      -2-10+1+2



        Printed below forecast. That gap is 2.04 times the size of a normal gap for this indicator.





## The trend



        DESK-CAPTURED PRINTS · LAST 15





    +17.40-7.2



  2026-072026-10

      Every print the desk has captured for this series, drawn as a trend. The graded history, with consensus and the standard-deviation surprise on every row, comes through the [Helious API](https://helious.io/developers/).





## How it moves Treasuries

    Nothing here reaches Treasuries directly. The route runs crude into gasoline, gasoline into what people expect headline inflation to be, and only then into breakevens. So a draw that spikes oil leans bearish bonds and a build leans the other way, and by the time it has travelled that far the move is usually small. See it scored live on the [Helious desk](https://helious.io/),
    or read [how the standard-deviation surprise is computed](https://helious.io/methodology).






## Recent prints, as captured by the desk


      DATEACTUALFORECASTPRIORSURPRISE (SD)PRINT


      Wed, Oct 7, 2026Oct 7 ’26
      -3.19M
      1.90M
      0.92M
      -2.04
      [BELOW FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-7fae63498d3ff5c2/eia-crude-oil-stocks-change-3-19m)



      Wed, Sep 30, 2026Sep 30 ’26
      0.92M
      -0.30M
      2.97M
      +0.49
      [ABOVE FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-ae0ec602f8d9ee9f/eia-crude-oil-stocks-change-0-92m)



      Wed, Sep 23, 2026Sep 23 ’26
      2.97M
      -0.70M
      -0.64M
      +1.47
      [ABOVE FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-0c9ee52297360fa4/eia-crude-oil-stocks-change-2-97m)



      Wed, Sep 16, 2026Sep 16 ’26
      -0.64M
      -1.60M
      -0.39M
      +0.38
      [ABOVE FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-6fab775521c30d68/eia-crude-oil-stocks-change-0-64m)



      Thu, Sep 10, 2026Sep 10 ’26
      -0.39M
      -1.60M
      -4.45M
      +0.48
      [ABOVE FORECAST](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-2e065dee008e813f/eia-crude-oil-stocks-change-0-39m)



      Wed, Sep 9, 2026Sep 9 ’26
      -4.5M
      —
      -4.45M
      —
      [BELOW PRIOR](https://helious.io/news/rel-ev-8832ce8e77c24bd2/eia-crude-oil-stocks-change-4-5m)


    The 6 most recent prints from the desk's live capture, which began in July 2026, so what you see here is a sample rather than the whole record. Every row links the print page published the moment that number landed, and the full graded history is served by the [API](https://helious.io/developers/).






## FAQ

### What was the latest EIA Crude Oil Inventories print?

EIA Crude Oil Inventories last printed -3.19M on Wed, Oct 7, 2026 against a 1.90M consensus forecast and a 0.92M prior, a -2.04 standard-deviation surprise. The next release is Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET. Captured live by Helious the moment it printed.

### When is the next EIA Crude Oil Inventories release?

The next EIA Crude Oil Inventories release is Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET, with a consensus forecast of 0.2M. Helious posts the print, the surprise against consensus and a verdict the second it lands.

### Was the latest EIA Crude Oil Inventories print a beat or a miss?

It printed below the consensus forecast: -3.19M against 1.90M, a -2.04 standard-deviation surprise. The standard deviation is measured against this indicator's own history of consensus misses, so the same gap means more on a series that rarely surprises.

      Weekly, every Wednesday (shifts a day on holiday weeks) · 10:30 AM ET ·
      [download a sample (CSV, recent rows)](https://helious.io/data/eia-crude-stocks.csv), free to cite with a link to this page.
      The full history comes through the [Helious API](https://helious.io/developers/) and
      MCP at [api.helious.io/mcp](https://api.helious.io/mcp), with depth set by plan.


    [Catch the next print live →](https://helious.io/)