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EIA Natural Gas Prices vs IEA Natural Gas Information
Which gas utilities data provider - storage, price, flow and infrastructure datasets delivered data fits your job: EIA Natural Gas Prices - Wellhead, Citygate and End-Use, or IEA Natural Gas Information. API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
EIA Natural Gas Prices - Wellhead, Citygate and End-Use (Historical)
IEA Natural Gas Information
Coverage, side by side
| EIA Natural Gas Prices - Wellhead, Citygate and End-Use | IEA Natural Gas Information | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | United States total plus all states via the area selector; import/export prices at national level | 38 OECD countries, 14 European non-OECD countries, about 150 world countries, plus 7-25 regional aggregates |
| Temporal | US wellhead 1922-2025; most state series 1967-2023; import/export prices from 1989; electric power price from 2002 | 1960-2025 in the July 2026 edition, which adds provisional 2025 figures |
| Granularity | One price series per measure per state per frequency, monthly and annual | Annual, country level, with bilateral trade flows across 166 origin/destination countries |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| EIA Natural Gas Prices - Wellhead, Citygate and End-Use | IEA Natural Gas Information | |
|---|---|---|
| Geography | United States total plus all states via the area selector; import/export prices at national level | 38 OECD countries, 14 European non-OECD countries, about 150 world countries, plus 7-25 regional aggregates |
| Temporal reach | US wellhead 1922-2025; most state series 1967-2023; import/export prices from 1989; electric power price from 2002 | 1960-2025 in the July 2026 edition, which adds provisional 2025 figures |
| Granularity | One price series per measure per state per frequency, monthly and annual | Annual, country level, with bilateral trade flows across 166 origin/destination countries |
| Scale | Roughly 15 price measures x 51 areas across two frequencies - several thousand series | Five named files covering about 150 countries, about 166 trade partners and 65 years of annual series |
| Units | Nominal dollars per thousand cubic feet throughout | Million cubic metres or terajoules on a gross calorific basis - quantities only, no prices |
Or take both in one feed
Yes - their axes intersect at exactly one point, which is why they stack cleanly.
Two cautions straight from the records. First, mind the join: the only shared geography is the United States itself, so anchor merges on explicit country-to-area mappings and keep the IEA's regional aggregates (OECD, IEA, 7-25 of them) out of any country-level sum.
Datadory delivers either record alone or both merged onto one calendar, normalized so dollars-per-Mcf and terajoules stop colliding, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly - your call. Or take both in one feed.
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Fair questions
Do these two datasets overlap in geographic coverage?
Only at the United States. The EIA ladder covers the US total plus all 50 states and DC; the IEA balances include the United States as one row among about 150 countries, alongside 38 OECD members, 14 European non-OECD countries and up to 25 regional aggregates. Everything below the national line - the state series - exists only in the EIA record.
Which dataset has the longer historical record?
It depends which series you name. But the IEA's run is continuous across every included country from 1960 to 2025, while the EIA's state detail ends at 2023 and the discontinued national wellhead aggregate shows NA in recent years.
Are the field definitions in both datasets equally reliable?
No, and Datadory's catalog marks the difference. The EIA ladder's seven field roles are verified against the published tables, including the NA and W footnote conventions. The IEA's six-field dictionary is inferred: its table layouts and codes live in a documentation PDF and SDMX mapping file shipped alongside the data files rather than on the product page itself.
How often does each dataset get new data?
Datadory delivers either on your schedule - daily, weekly, or hourly.