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EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report — Crude Oil Inventories — Week Ended July 31, 2026

Source
EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report
Source link
https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/pdf/wpsrall.pdf#d4e65cd24a29-crude_oil_inventories-v2
Published
2026-07-31 00:00:00
Discovered by ProcIntel
2026-08-08 11:03:37
Category
Commodities & Raw Materials
Geography
United States
Organisations
Review status
Pending
Record type
REAL

Summary

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) increased by 2.5 million barrels from the previous week, to 407.0 million barrels -- 6% below the five-year average for this time of year.

Possibly the same underlying story as ‎US oil inventories add 2.5M barrels: EIA — flagged automatically for review, never merged automatically.

Procurement Relevance Gate

PASS — score 22.8/100 — evaluated 2026-08-08 11:03:37
Passed on: commodity_or_input_impact, geographic_exposure (score 22.8/100, threshold 20.0).
  • commodity_or_input_impact (weight 12) — matched on "oil"
  • geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"

Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Initial Significance
2 · Moderate (20.0/100)
Initial Confidence
3 · Moderate (64.0/100)
Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
Partial
Strongest contributor
Impact-Scale Specificity
Limiting factor
Geographic Breadth

Initial Significance Moderate (20.0/100). Strongest contributor: Impact-Scale Specificity (7.0/10 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (64/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Extraction Quality (3.0/15 points). Capped at 64 (Moderate) -- neither the authoritative-origin nor the independent-corroboration route to Sufficient was met (no matched Event type; no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any); no actor content-derived geography), limiting Confidence even though other factors scored higher.

  • No likely Event type matched; a low contextual baseline was applied.
  • Entity Criticality data quality warning: all_linked_entities_data_insufficient.
  • no matched Event type
  • no actor entities (only attribution/metadata, if any)
  • no actor content-derived geography
  • Entities were mentioned as context or document attribution rather than as actors in the reported development, so they did not increase Initial Confidence.

Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-08 11:03:37.