EIA set to resume weekly US petroleum report

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) will resume publishing weekly inventories for crude and related petroleum products at the usual time tomorrow, including data from last week's delayed release.

The Weekly Petroleum Status Report on 29 June will cover data for the weeks ended 17 June and 24 June, the statistical arm of the US Department of Energy said today in a statement. The report, typically published at 10:30am ET, includes data on refined products, propane and ethanol.

No new or previously delayed data will be published today. The EIA is continuing the system restoration process from last week's outage that held up the release of several reports.

A voltage irregularity discovered on 17 June caused hardware failures on two of the agency's main processing servers. While the affected hardware has been replaced, the EIA said yesterday it was in the process of transferring data from its back-up systems to new servers, before carrying out quality checks.

By Stephen Cunningham