US Energy Information Administration news
US retail gasoline prices lower than last year heading into Labour Day
On 25 August 2025, the Monday before Labour Day weekend, the retail price of regular gasoline averaged US$3.15/gal. across the US, 5% (or US$0.17 cents/gal.) lower than at the same time in 2024, the EIA has reported.
Transportation fuel demand remains below pre-pandemic levels
Five years after the COVID-19 national emergency was declared, gasoline demand, distillate demand, and jet fuel demand all remain less than pre-pandemic averages, the US EIA has reported.
US jet fuel consumption growth slows after air travel recovers from pandemic slowdown
US jet fuel consumption growth has slowed in 2025, following a period of rapid consumption growth after 2020, as US air travel recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, the EIA has reported.
EIA expects record US natural gas consumption in 2025
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has forecasted that natural gas consumption in the US will increase 1% to set a record of 91.4 billion ft3/d in 2025.
US natural gas storage levels remain above average through injection season
The EIA's latest Short-Term Energy Outlook forecasts that US working natural gas inventories will reach 3872 billion ft3 by the end of October.
USA exported 30% of the energy it produced in 2024
The US Energy Information Administration has reported that in 2024, the US exported about 30% of its domestic primary energy production.
EIA expects the price of crude to fall by the end of 2025
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects a significant decline in the price of oil as growth in the global supply of oil vastly surpasses growth in demand for petroleum products.
Petroleum prices reacted to economic and geopolitical uncertainty in 2Q25
The US EIA has reported that energy prices were more volatile in the 2Q25 amid uncertainty from concerns over economic growth as well as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.
Eastern US natural gas increasingly meets LNG-fuelled demand growth in AEO2025
In the AEO2025, the US EIA has projected regional differences in natural gas markets that will encourage increased natural gas flows from the mid-Atlantic to the southern Gulf Coast in the coming decades.
EIA reports that natural gas price volatility fell over 1H25
The average historical volatility of the daily Henry Hub front-month futures price trended downward through 1H25, with quarterly volatility falling from a recent high of 81% in the 4Q24 to 69% by mid-2025.