Supply
Above normalUS propane production
Weekly propane/propylene production by region, thousand barrels per day (kb/d)
Data through Aug 28, 2026 · source last checked Sep 2, 2026 · page revised Sep 2, 2026
Cite
- US
- PADD 1 (East Coast)
- PADD 2 (Midwest)
- PADD 3 (Gulf Coast)
- PADD 4-5 (Rockies and West Coast)
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 2.916 million b/d, 14.8% above the 5-yr median.
US propane production at 2.916 million barrels per day edged down 0.2% week over week but stands 1.1% above the level four weeks ago. Output runs 14.8% above the five-year median for this week.
| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Week over week | 2,916 kb/d | 2,921 kb/d | -0.2% |
| vs 4 weeks ago | 2,916 kb/d | 2,884 kb/d | +1.1% |
| Year over year | 2,916 kb/d | 2,867 kb/d | +1.7% |
| vs 5-yr median | 2,916 kb/d | 2,539 kb/d | +14.8% |
Previous weeks
Week of Aug 21, 2026
US propane production stood at 2.921 million barrels per day in the week through August 21, up 3.0% from a year ago. Output is 12% above the 5-yr median.
An earlier week
US propane production reached 2.911 million barrels per day for the week ended August 14, up 0.6% from the prior week. Output runs 9.8% above the 5-year median.
An earlier week
US propane production held at 2.884 million barrels per day, flat on the week. Output sits 15.4% above the 5-year median.
About US propane production
This is weekly US propane and propylene field production, the volume gas processing plants and refineries put into the supply chain, in thousand barrels per day. It comes from EIA's Weekly Petroleum Status Report, the same year-round release that carries the stocks numbers this site tracks, and EIA counts propane and propylene together throughout. Roughly three-quarters of it is a byproduct of natural gas processing, stripped out of the raw gas stream at plants across Texas, the Midcontinent, Appalachia and the Rockies; the balance comes off crude oil at refineries.
Production is the origin point of every gallon that eventually reaches a rack or a residential tank, but it moves independently of heating demand: gas plants and refineries run to a fairly steady schedule set by drilling and refining activity, not by the weather. When production runs ahead of exports and demand, US propane stocks build and the Mont Belvieu wholesale benchmark tends to soften into the season; when it lags, the same mechanism works in reverse. Retail follows wholesale with a lag measured in weeks, not days.
EIA publishes this figure every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. Eastern in the Weekly Petroleum Status Report, for the week that ended the previous Friday, with holiday weeks pushed to Thursday. It runs alongside regional detail for the Gulf Coast, Midwest and other producing districts, so a reader can see whether a national move is broad-based or concentrated in one part of the country.