EIA: US Ethanol Stocks Fell Last Week, Rose Year-Over-Year

EIA: US Ethanol Stocks Fell Last Week, Rose Year-Over-Year

Dawn Gallagher
DTN Energy Reporter

HOUSTON (DTN) -- Overall ethanol production in the United States averaged 1.093 million barrels per day (bpd) in the week ended Feb. 28, which is up 12,000 bpd week-on-week, according to the latest Energy Information Administration data. Total output for the week was 36,000 bpd, or 3.3%, more than the same week last year.

Four-week average output at 1.085 million bpd was 10,000 bpd above the same four weeks last year, the same data showed.

Midwest ethanol production averaged 1.04 million bpd, up 7,000 bpd week-on-week and 32,000 bpd, or 3.1%, higher than in the same week of 2024. Four-week average output at 1.032 million bpd was 7,000 bpd above the same four weeks last year.

Ethanol blending activity in the U.S. averaged 890,000 bpd, up 44,000 bpd week-on-week and 16,000 bpd, or 1.8%, higher than in the same reference week last year. Four-week average blending demand totaled 860,000 bpd, down 1,000 bpd against the same four weeks last year.

Blender inputs at the East Coast were up 16,000 bpd on the week while inputs in the Midwest rose 16,000 bpd, up 3,000 bpd on the Gulf Coast and 7,000 bpd above on the West Coast.

Domestic ethanol inventories totaled 27.289 million bbl in the week ended Feb. 28, down 282,000 bbl week-on-week while 1.238 million bbl, or 4.5%, higher year-over-year.

East Coast PADD 1 inventories ended the week at 8.244 million bbl, down 15,000 bbl week-on-week and 272,000 bbl, or 3.3% lower, than in the same week last year.

Midwest PADD 2 inventories ended the week at 11.262 million bbl, up 102,000 bbl week-on-week and 844,000 bbl, or 7.5%, higher than a year ago.

Gulf Coast PADD 3 inventories ended the week at 4.892 million bbl, down 349,000 bbl week-on-week and 508,000 bbl, up 10.4%, year-over-year.

West Coast PADD 5 inventories ended the week at 2.576 million bbl, down 12,000 bbl week-on-week and 213,000 bbl, or 8.3%, higher than in the same week last year.

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