FAQ

Refined Fuels Demand is a product offered by DTN via API and through ProphetX.  Each day the tool gathers liquid fuels transaction data that is observed by DTN and summarizes the product volumes by type for each Rack City, Terminal, PADD and US.  The data is released to the API each morning around 3AM Central

Grade Definition Aviation Commonly known as Avgas, it often has an octane rating of 100 and can fluctuate some. Used for general aviation purposes like small aircraft and light helicopters. Midgrade Gasoline products that have an octane range between 88-89, it varies by location. Common products are conventional, conventional 10% ethanol, reformulated 10% ethanol, and

All 3 of DTN’s distillate grades roll up to the EIA’s Distillate Fuel Oil category. From there, DTN’s #1 Diesel and #2 Diesel will map to the EIA’s 15 ppm and under Sulfur category. DTN’s Heating Oil will map to either EIA’s Greater than 15 to 500 ppm Sulfur or Greater than 500 ppm Sulfur,

Currently, the United States is the only country available.

Volume data is aggregated daily from 12:00 am – 11:59:59 pm local terminal time and calculated at 3:00 am central time the following day.

The API volume data is based on net gallons.

The Rack endpoint has volume data for 305 rack-city locations. Individual terminal data within a city is not available.

You can find the documentation here.

Both CSV and JSON can be requested from the API. By default, the API returns back JSON. To retrieve CSV, send CSV for the format parameter.

There are no limits on date ranges aside from the historical start date of 01/01/2017 and the 5,000-record limit per page.