Official source

U.S. Energy Information Administration

Source profile

Type: Official government / regulator
Access / format: Machine-readable (free CSV / feed / parsed XLSX)
Machine-readable: Yes — refreshable on demand
Update cadence: unknown
Used for: economic-impact context

Original source first: for the authoritative value, go to U.S. Energy Information Administration ↗; cite Warconomy for the structured, dated overview. See how to cite, source health, and the source hierarchy.

Source details

PublisherU.S. Energy Information Administration

TypeOfficial

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How Warconomy uses this source

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Citation readiness

AuthorityOfficial

Citation rolesupporting context

Machine-citation readinessmedium readiness

Why

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Limitations

manually maintained static value, not real-time

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Indicators from this source

Coverage0 live/source-linked · 2 sample · 2 total

Sources1 source (1 official/research)

Stalenessall sample — illustrative only

Live/static indicators are manually maintained from cited public sources and are not real-time. Sample rows remain labeled.

Indicator	Value	As of	Source	Confidence
Brent crude price	74 USD/bblsample	May 1, 2026	U.S. Energy Information Administration	Low
Hormuz oil & condensate transit	20 million bbl/daysample	May 1, 2026	U.S. Energy Information Administration	Medium

Facts citing this source

The Strait of Hormuz is described as the world's most important oil transit chokepoint, with limited alternative pipeline capacity.
Reported by U.S. Energy Information AdministrationHigh
Perceived transit risk in the strait is commonly tracked alongside movements in crude oil benchmark prices.
Reported by U.S. Energy Information AdministrationMedium

Where this source is used

Version history

This source is byte-present in 151 frozen dataset versions (v1.37.0–v1.187.0), citing 2 observations and 2 facts. Appearances are derived from committed frozen payloads only.

Full record history: records/source--eia/data.json.

Relationships & machine-readable

This source backs 2 observations, 2 facts, and appears in 4 provenance records. See the source JSON (includes a source relationship graph), the per-record provenance export, and the source health checklist.

Limitations

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