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Refined Products Pipelines — Monthly Producer Price Index

What US pipelines charge to move gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other refined products: the Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price index for pipeline transportation of refined petroleum products.

Data status: Provisional
Official statisticSource figures as of October 17, 2026Sources & methods
Sources
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Period covered
Jun 1986 – Sep 2026
Source figures as of
October 17, 2026
Geography
United States
Sector
Energy, Utilities & Critical Minerals
Seasonal adjustment
Not seasonally adjusted
Transformations
Views other than the level (changes, averages, volatility) are calculated by CK Economics from these figures
Revisions
Replaced with the source’s latest figures whenever it revises them.
Data status
Provisional
Limitations
Figures from Jun 2026 on are preliminary at the source. Seasonal swings are left in: compare a period with the same period a year earlier.

Full method · Research standards

No projectionIn backtests at 40 past dates, a statistical projection (exponential smoothing, damped trend) was not clearly better than a no-change forecast: its errors over the next 3 months were 19% larger, short of the 5% improvement needed, so none is shown. How we decide

Key figures

CK estimateIndex (Jun 1986=100) · calculated by CK Economics from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data

Latest · Sep 2026
278.4
+1.9% vs a year earlier1
5-year change
+27.5%
since Sep 2021, +5.0% a year2
10-year change
+41.8%
since Sep 2016, +3.6% a year2
Record high
278.4
Sep 20263
Record low
100
Jun 19863
Where the latest ranks
100th pct.
Higher than 100% of the other 483 observations since Jun 19864
  1. 1Latest observation against the observation one year earlier (for weekly data, the nearest within three days).
  2. 2Latest observation against the observation five and ten years earlier; the yearly rate is the compound annual growth rate over the span.
  3. 3Highest and lowest published observations across the full history shown.
  4. 4Share of the other published observations that are lower than the latest one, rounded down.

Seasonal pattern

CK estimate

Each month of 2026 and 2025 against the average and range of the same month in 2021–2025. Calculated by CK Economics from the published series.

Monthly Index (Jun 1986=100) in 2026 and 2025 compared with the 2021–2025 average and range
2026 2025 2021–2025 average 2021–2025 range

Methodology

The index covers pipeline transportation of refined petroleum products (NAICS 486910). Most of these rates are tariffs filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, so the index tends to move in annual steps. A producer price index measures the change over time in the prices that domestic producers receive for their output, here what carriers charge to move freight. BLS publishes it about two weeks after the month ends and revises the latest four months, which are marked preliminary, once more price reports arrive. Values come from the FRED copy of the BLS series and are cross-checked against the BLS Public Data API for the latest two years. Index levels are not seasonally adjusted. The base month, Jun 1986, equals 100. Projection: none. CK Economics backtests a statistical projection of this series (exponential smoothing with a damped trend) by refitting it at past dates and scoring its forecasts against what happened. Its errors over the next three months were not at least 5% smaller than those of the better of a no-change forecast and repeating the same month a year earlier, so no projection is shown.

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Source

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index by Industry (PCU486910486910), not seasonally adjusted, via FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/PCU486910486910 and https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU486910486910 — figures as published on 17 October 2026.

All data

484 observations, newest first · Index (Jun 1986=100)

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PeriodValueChange y/y
Sep 2026278.4+1.9%
Aug 2026277.7+1.6%
Jul 2026277.5+1.6%
Jun 2026273.9+2.5%
May 2026273.9+2.5%
Apr 2026273.9+2.5%
Mar 2026273.9+2.5%
Feb 2026273.9+2.5%
Jan 2026273.9+2.5%
Dec 2025273.6+1.9%
Nov 2025273.6+1.9%
Oct 2025273.2+1.4%
Sep 2025273.4+2.4%
Aug 2025273.4+2.4%
Jul 2025273.3+2.7%
Jun 2025267.2+1.9%
May 2025267.2+1.9%
Apr 2025267.2+1.9%
Mar 2025267.2+1.9%
Feb 2025267.2+1.9%
Jan 2025267.2+1.9%
Dec 2024268.6+2.6%
Nov 2024268.6+2.6%
Oct 2024269.3+2.8%

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