Sources
Data sources
Each series on the price board, where it comes from, the terms that apply, and how often it moves.
| Dataset | Source | Licence / terms | Update frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Europe Brent spot (EIA series RBRTE) | U.S. Energy Information Administration Open Data API v2, route petroleum/pri/spt. Credit: Source: U.S. EIA. | U.S. government work. Public domain. Free to show, chart and cite. https://www.eia.gov/opendata/ | Daily spot. EIA publishes the trade date with a lag of several days. A successful response is cached for 2 hours. |
| WTI Cushing spot (EIA series RWTC) | U.S. EIA Open Data API v2, route petroleum/pri/spt. Credit: Source: U.S. EIA. | U.S. government work. Public domain. | Daily spot, same lag and 2-hour cache as Brent. |
| Henry Hub natural gas spot (EIA series RNGWHHD) | U.S. EIA Open Data API v2, route natural-gas/pri/fut. The spot series is published on that futures dataset. Credit: Source: U.S. EIA. | U.S. government work. Public domain. | Daily spot, in $/MMBtu, with the same publication lag and 2-hour cache. |
| Dubai crude | Not shown. A Platts assessment. | Proprietary. A licence is required before it can be displayed. This site does not hard-code a Dubai mark. | Not updated here. |
| UK NBP | Not shown. An ICE price. | Licensed exchange data. Not republished. | Not updated here. |
| Dutch TTF | Not shown. An ICE Endex price. | Licensed exchange data. Not republished. | Not updated here. |
| LNG Asia marker (JKM) and US dollar index | Labelled placeholders on the dashboard, when those rows are still present. They are not a live Platts or FX feed. | JKM is a Platts assessment and is not licensed for this site. The dollar row is not a live index feed. | Not a market feed. Cards are flagged when the stored date is more than 7 days old. |
| Brent vs WTI chart and Henry Hub chart | The same EIA responses as the spot cards. No separate sample series. | Public domain, with the EIA credit line on the chart. | Redrawn from the cached EIA history, up to the observations returned with each spot request. |
| Balance engine, curve monitor, signals, briefings and other desk files | Editorial files written for this site. The July 2026 briefings are an archive. | Original text. Not a licensed market-data feed, and not a recommendation. | When the desk edits the file. Archive notes stay dated and are labelled stale. |
EIA spot prices are the trade date, not the moment the page was fetched. A card whose trade date is more than 7 days old is marked stale. Information only, not investment advice.
See also the data disclaimer and the financial disclaimer.