About
Readings is a project to bring transparency to North American energy flows.
Oil and gas move through pipelines, terminals and refineries that most people never see, and the numbers that describe them are scattered across thousands of public filings — federal pipeline reports, state regulator returns and government statistics. This site gathers those filings in one place, so anyone can see where crude oil is produced, which pipelines carry it, and where it is refined or exported.
What’s here
How it works
- Public sources only, among them the EIA, FERC, the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Canada Energy Regulator and Statistics Canada.
- Each figure carries its source, and reported figures are labelled differently from estimates, so you can tell what was filed from what was worked out.
- Where a source is incomplete, the site says so rather than filling the gap.
An independent personal project, not affiliated with any agency or company named here. Nothing here is trading advice.
Privacy
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