European Diesel Inventories

The headline uses Eurostat gas oil and diesel oil, product O4671, for EU27_2020. Europe in this page title refers to the EU27 aggregate, not every European country.

No. STK_CL is total closing stocks and includes emergency holdings. Emergency subsets must not be added to the total; this is not a measure of freely available commercial supply.

Eurostat publishes thousand tonnes; dividing by 1,000 gives million tonnes. A conversion to barrels would require an appropriate product density, which this page does not assume.

No. EU27_2020 is the current 27-member grouping. The United Kingdom, Norway and Switzerland are not included in this headline or its member-state table.

No. Inclusion in a stock statistic does not establish commercial availability, release authorization, transport access or fuel-grade suitability.

These are monthly submissions followed by compilation and publication. The page shows elapsed days since the observation month ended. A recent website retrieval does not turn that month into current market data.

No. Eurostat’s dataset update timestamp can cover revisions to different observations. It is shown separately from the observation month and website retrieval time.

Each monthly closing stock is compared with the same calendar month in the previous five years. Changes use the immediately preceding month, including December-to-January transitions.

Provisional flags are retained and displayed. Confidential, break-in-series and unreliable observations are excluded from values and seasonal calculations; the original flag remains visible.

No. The headline is Eurostat’s published EU27 aggregate. Country rows are shown separately at the aggregate month, with their latest valid dates. Missing countries are not estimated or silently removed from a new total.

It spans the minimum and maximum stock levels in the same period of the five preceding years. It is a historical reference, not a forecast or confidence interval.

The arithmetic mean uses exactly five valid same-period stock observations. If any required observation is missing, the mean and range remain unavailable.

A draw is a negative change from the immediately preceding reporting period. A build is a positive change. A missing preceding period makes the change unavailable.

Yes. The stock level describes the remaining buffer; the change describes its recent movement. A draw inside its historical range can still leave a small buffer.

No. Demand patterns, refinery operations and storage arrangements change. Exceptional historical years remain in the reference and may widen its range.

No. Stocks are one physical indicator. Demand, refinery output, imports, exports, freight and expectations also affect prices.

The chart uses the selected region’s observations. The comparison table aligns values to the national or EU headline period and separately identifies each region’s latest valid date.

No. Missing data remain unavailable and charts do not bridge gaps. A published zero is different from an absent observation.

The downloadable normalized inventory file includes histories, source identifiers, seasonal inputs, flags and retrieval metadata. Recent observations are also available in the page table.

Compare the other regional inventory page, then inspect the US Diesel Tightness Tracker or the global supply-and-demand page for additional physical and price context.