PADD 1 (East Coast) propane stocks

PADD 1 combines the three East Coast storage areas this site also pages separately: New England, the Central Atlantic and the Lower Atlantic. The region produces little propane of its own, so most of what fills these terminals and storage tanks arrived by pipeline from the Gulf Coast or by ship rather than from nearby gas plants, which makes the East Coast a consuming region rather than a producing one. Stocks here still build from spring through summer and draw down through the heating season like the national total, but on a thinner local supply cushion, so a hard cold snap can strain deliveries faster than it would where the barrels originate. The five-year band shows whether that cushion is thicker or thinner than usual before winter; the three sub-regions below break out where within PADD 1 it sits.

The East Coast total is the sum of those three sub-areas, so a move in this line can come from one of them alone, and reading it without checking which is a common way to draw the wrong conclusion. What EIA counts is primary storage: terminal tankage, pipeline fill and the small amount of plant storage in the region, reported in thousand barrels. Barrels already at a dealer or in a customer's tank are outside the count. The figure lands with the rest of the Weekly Petroleum Status Report each Wednesday morning, covering the week ended the prior Friday. Because the East Coast brings in a meaningful share of what it burns from outside the region, the arrival or absence of a single cargo can show in these weekly numbers in a way it never would nationally.