Supply
Above normalUS propane exports
Weekly propane/propylene exports, thousand barrels per day (kb/d)
Data through Aug 28, 2026 · source last checked Sep 2, 2026 · page revised Sep 2, 2026
Cite
- Exports
About this data
- Source
- EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report
- Series
- Propane and propylene supply (production, exports, imports, product supplied)
- Geography
- United States
- Unit
- kb/d
- Calculation
- Weekly balance
- Last observation
- Aug 28, 2026
- Update frequency
- Weekly
Now 2.153 million b/d, 39.2% above the 5-yr median.
US propane exports reached 2.153 million barrels per day for the week ending August 28, up 6.7% on the week. Year-over-year exports are up 20.5%, and current levels sit 39.2% above the 5-year median.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 2,153 kb/d | 2,018 kb/d | +6.7% |
| vs 4 weeks ago | 2,153 kb/d | 1,921 kb/d | +12.1% |
| Year over year | 2,153 kb/d | 1,787 kb/d | +20.5% |
| vs 5-yr median | 2,153 kb/d | 1,547 kb/d | +39.2% |
Previous weeks
Week of Aug 21, 2026
US propane exports reached 2.018 million barrels per day for the week through August 21, down 1.1% from the prior week. The export pull runs 24.6% above the 5-year median, up 16.5% year over year.
An earlier week
US propane exports reached 2.041 million barrels per day for the week ending August 14, up 3.0% from the prior week and 46% above the 5-year median. The four-week gain was 0.468 million barrels per day.
An earlier week
US propane exports fell to 1.921 million barrels per day, down 0.193 million barrels on the week. The latest stands 29.6% above the 5-yr median of 1.482 million barrels per day. Exports have declined 26.6% over the past four weeks.
About US propane exports
This is weekly US propane and propylene exports, mostly cargoes loaded at Gulf Coast marine terminals for buyers overseas, in thousand barrels per day, from EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report. The US has been a net propane exporter since 2010 and now ships more of its supply overseas than any other country loads, so this line is not a footnote to the domestic market; it is one of the two claims (with domestic demand) on everything US production makes.
Because export cargoes bid for the same barrels a US dealer's rack supply comes from, a heavy loading program can pull on Gulf Coast stocks and firm the Mont Belvieu wholesale price in a week that has nothing to do with US weather. That is the export-parity mechanism: US retail prices carry a floor set partly by what an overseas buyer is willing to pay, not only by domestic heating demand. See exports by destination for which countries are doing the buying.
EIA publishes this weekly figure alongside stocks and production each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Eastern in the Weekly Petroleum Status Report, for the week ended the prior Friday. Loadings run lumpy week to week, since a single large cargo can move the number on its own, which is why this series is better read as a trend over several weeks than as a single reading against the one before it.