What countries are included with this service?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCurrently, the United States is the only country available.
Read MoreWhat Coverage Factor values are available?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCoverage factor values are provided daily for each PADD, subPADD, and the US total.
Read MoreWhat formats does the Demand API support?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBoth 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.
Read MoreWhat is Coverage Factor?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCoverage Factor is a new addition to the Refined Fuels Demand offering that seeks to normalize the Refined Fuels Demand data across regions and time by identifying the total transactions that occurred in a specified time frame and comparing that count to the transaction volume DTN directly observed and processed. This data is to be
Read MoreWhat is Refined Fuels Demand?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRefined 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
Read MoreWhat is the max number of records that can be returned per page?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe max number of records per page is 5,000 records. Request 5,000 records by entering limit = 5,000 or pageSize = 5,000.
Read MoreWhat is the Methodology for Coverage Factor?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor a given geography (US, or PADD): COVERAGE = (# of visible transactions over 7 days) / (# visible transactions over 7 days + # missing transactions over 7 days). Where # visible transactions is a count of BOLs (the same ones used in RFD to get product/volume) and # missing transactions is the number
Read MoreWhat is the source for Demand Data?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDTN TABS is the source data for Demand. TABS is a real-time refined fuels inventory management system utilized by suppliers. TABS authorizes trucks at the rack and receives BOLs from the terminal after the truck has completed lifting.
Read MoreWhat kind of limits are there around large date ranges?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere are no limits on date ranges aside from the historical start date of 01/01/2017 and the 5,000-record limit per page.
Read MoreWhy are some rack/grades omitted?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf DTN does not receive any lifting information for the rack/grade combination, it is omitted from the API results rather than returning a 0.
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