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Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products (nrg_stk_gasm) vs EU Weekly Oil Bulletin
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Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products (nrg_stk_gasm)
EU Weekly Oil Bulletin
Where the fields line up
No shared field names. These two answer different questions.
| Field | Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products | EU Weekly Oil Bulletin |
|---|---|---|
freq | Time frequency of the observation; M (monthly) is the only value this table carries. | not in this set |
stk_flow | Stock indicator, six values: STKOP_CG opening stock - cushion gas; STKCL_CG closing stock - cushion gas; STKOP_NAT opening stock - national territory; STKCL_NAT closing stock - national territory; STKOP_ABR opening stock - held abroad; STKCL_ABR closing stock - held abroad. | not in this set |
siec | Standard international energy product classification; G3000 = natural gas, the only product in this table. | not in this set |
unit | Unit of measure: MIO_M3 million cubic metres for volume, TJ_GCV terajoule at gross calorific value for energy content. | not in this set |
geo | Reporting geography among 41 codes: the EU27_2020 aggregate, euro-area aggregates, every EU member state, plus associated and neighbouring countries including Norway, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Türkiye, Albania and the Western Balkans. | not in this set |
TIME_PERIOD | Reference month in YYYY-MM form; verified range January 2008 (2008-01) through July 2026 (2026-07), 223 periods. | not in this set |
OBS_VALUE | Observed stock level in the selected unit - Germany's June-2026 closing stock on national territory reads 9399.0 million cubic metres. | not in this set |
OBS_FLAG | Conditional observation flag marking provisional readings, estimates or breaks in series; absent where the figure needs no caveat. | not in this set |
CONF_STATUS | Conditional confidentiality flag marking restricted observations; absent on openly published values. | not in this set |
Date | not in this set | Excel serial date of the reporting week, column A of the history sheets; weeks end on a Monday. |
<CC>_price_with_tax_euro95 | not in this set | Consumer pump price of euro-super 95 petrol including duties and taxes for country code CC, in national currency per 1,000 litres; the EUR_ block restates it in euros. |
<CC>_price_with_tax_diesel | not in this set | Automotive gas oil (diesel) consumer price including duties and taxes, per 1,000 litres. |
Coverage, side by side
| Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products | EU Weekly Oil Bulletin | |
|---|---|---|
| Geographic | 41 reporting geographies: EU-27 and euro-area aggregates, every member state, plus Norway, the UK, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Türkiye and the Western Balkans | All EU member states plus the United Kingdom, with EU and eurozone aggregates and per-country methodological notes |
| Temporal | January 2008 through July 2026 — 223 monthly periods in the verified extract | Weekly frame to early 2003 in the current history layout, with continuous price series from January 2005 — roughly 1,100 Monday-ending weeks |
What each contains
Pick by fit, not by loyalty.
| Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products | EU Weekly Oil Bulletin | |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Eurostat, the European Union's statistical office | European Commission Directorate-General for Energy |
| Subject lens | Physical natural gas inventories: opening and closing stock for cushion gas, national territory and gas held abroad | Consumer pump prices for five refined-product families, duties and taxes included, with the tax components separable |
| Geographic coverage | 41 reporting geographies: EU-27 and euro-area aggregates, every member state, plus Norway, the UK, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Türkiye and the Western Balkans | All EU member states plus the United Kingdom, with EU and eurozone aggregates and per-country methodological notes |
| Temporal coverage | January 2008 through July 2026 — 223 monthly periods in the verified extract | Weekly frame to early 2003 in the current history layout, with continuous price series from January 2005 — roughly 1,100 Monday-ending weeks |
| Detail level | One observation per geography per stock indicator per unit per month | One observation per country per product family per week, laid out as a country-column block |
| Units | Million cubic metres (MIO_M3) or terajoule at gross calorific value (TJ_GCV), carried side by side | National currency per 1,000 litres, or per tonne for heavy fuel oils, with exchange-rate columns for non-euro members |
| Scale | About 38,800 observations across 223 months, 41 geographies, 6 stock indicators and 2 units | Roughly 1,100 weekly rows against about 226 country-and-product columns in the prices sheet |
| Best for | Storage-fill curves, withdrawal-season pacing, energy-security monitoring | Cross-border price spreads, tax-share-of-a-litre studies, retail margin work |
What each does better
Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products
It keeps a proper balance sheet of Europe's gas. Six stock indicators separate opening from closing positions across three books: cushion gas (STKOP_CG, STKCL_CG), the national territory (STKOP_NAT, STKCL_NAT) and gas held abroad (STKOP_ABR, STKCL_ABR). That last pair is the quiet luxury — storage a country leases outside its borders shows up in its own accounts rather than vanishing. Germany's June 2026 closing stock reads 9,399 million cubic metres on the national-territory line; the EU-27 aggregate runs alongside at tens-of-thousands scale, so the bloc fill curve needs no assembly.
Volume and energy travel together. Every figure exists twice — million cubic metres for the physicist, terajoule at gross calorific value for the trader — so calorific drift never corrupts a time series.
Its map is wider than the EU. Forty-one geographies reach past the Union to Norway, the UK, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Türkiye and the Western Balkans — the routes storage actually flows through. Depth matches width: January 2008 through July 2026, about 38,800 observations, every one carrying its provisional or confidential flag.
the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin
Austria's taxed euro-super 95 prints at 1,795 per 1,000 litres in the latest week; Belgium's diesel at 2,173.52; Bulgaria's LPG at 642.80 — spreads that wide, on one page, every week.
The tax component is separable, not buried. A companion duties-and-taxes workbook splits VAT, excise duty and other indirect taxes into their own sheets, so the share of a litre that is tax is a lookup rather than an estimation exercise.
Where they're equivalent
More than their different shapes suggest. Both field dictionaries were verified during research — a bar 12 of the slice's 16 records clear. Both come from official European Commission statistical programs with their own validation passes, and both outrank the catalog's 7.81 average on the rubric. Both cover all EU member states plus the United Kingdom and publish EU-level aggregates, so either supports a bloc-wide chart without country stitching. Both hold long calendars — 223 consecutive months on one side, roughly 1,100 weeks on the other — deep enough to bracket several winters and at least two energy crises. And both are rigidly grained: neither offers daily texture, which is precisely why each is trustworthy at its own rhythm.
The verdict
Verdict: sample both, pick by fit — one measures molecules at rest, the other money at the pump.
Take Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products (nrg_stk_gasm) if your question names inventory. Storage-fill levels against seasonal norms, withdrawal-season pacing, cushion-gas shares, gas held abroad, neighbour-country comparisons beyond the Union — anything answered by a stock position.
Accept its limits: refined products only, weekly grain, no wholesale hub quotes and no physical quantities.
Investors and quants tend toward the stock table for supply-side signals and the bulletin for demand-side heat maps; market researchers and consultants usually want the order reversed depending on whether the client trades molecules or sells at the kerb.
Sample both, pick by fit. See Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products · See EU Weekly Oil Bulletin
Or take both in one feed
Three alignments decide whether the merge holds. First, identifiers: unpivot the bulletin's country-column blocks into rows keyed by country code before matching against geo. Second, the calendar: weekly Mondays against monthly periods — agree whether a month means its average week, its final week, or its last Monday. Browse the rest of the shelf at the oil & gas refining & marketing data hub.
Datadory ships either record alone or both merged onto one calendar, delivered daily, weekly, or hourly — your call. Or take both in one feed.
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Fair questions
Is Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products (nrg_stk_gasm) better than the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin?
Better at opposite ends of the same barrel. nrg_stk_gasm owns the physical question: how much natural gas Europe holds, month by month, split into cushion gas versus territory stocks versus gas held abroad, in both volume and energy units, scored 9 out of 10 on the Datadory rubric. Neither answers the other's question.
Do Eurostat — Stock Levels for Gas Products (nrg_stk_gasm) and the EU Weekly Oil Bulletin cover the same commodities?
They barely touch. nrg_stk_gasm carries exactly one product — natural gas, SIEC code G3000 — measured as physical stock volumes.
Which dataset reaches further back?
The bulletin, by a nose and a half. Both are deep enough to span several full injection-withdrawal cycles and more than one energy crisis.
Which dataset should a European energy analyst sample first?
Decide whether the question lives in storage or at the kerb. Storage-fill levels, withdrawal-season pace, cushion-gas splits, gas a country holds abroad — start with nrg_stk_gasm, whose EU-27 aggregate lets you draw the bloc-level fill curve directly. Most energy desks end up carrying both.
Can Datadory deliver both datasets together?
Yes. Each arrives normalized to its documented field dictionary — nine fields on the Eurostat side, eight on the bulletin's — with sample rows for inspection before anything ships. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly — your call. Or take both in one feed.