What are petroleum products, and what is petroleum used for?
Petroleum products include:
- Transportation fuels
- Fuel oils for heating and electricity generation
- Asphalt and road oil
- Feedstocks for making the chemicals, plastics, and synthetic materials that are in nearly everything we use
In 2025, total U.S. petroleum consumption (about 7.5 billion barrels) was:
- About 43% finished motor gasoline (includes fuel ethanol)
- 19% distillate fuel (heating oil and diesel fuel)
- 8% jet fuel
- 19% hydrocarbon gas liquids
- 11% Other types (including biofuels: biodiesel, renewable diesel, and other biofuels)
Learn more:
What is the difference between crude oil, petroleum products, and petroleum?
Energy Explained: Crude oil and petroleum products
Petroleum products supplied by type (Table 3.5) (product supplied represents consumption)
U.S. Petroleum Product Supplied
Petroleum Supply Monthly
Other FAQs about Oil/Petroleum
- When was the last refinery built in the United States?
- Does EIA have data on the movement (transport) of crude oil, biofuels, petroleum products, and propane by rail?
- What do I pay for in a gallon of gasoline and diesel fuel?
- How much coal, natural gas, or petroleum is used to generate a kilowatthour of electricity?
- What is the outlook for home heating fuel prices this winter?
- Does EIA have data on U.S. oil refineries and their locations?
- Does EIA have information on U.S. natural gas and oil pipelines?
- How much oil is consumed in the United States?
- How much oil is used to make plastic?
- What types and amounts of energy are produced in each state?
- How much shale (tight) oil is produced in the United States?
- What is the difference between crude oil, petroleum products, and petroleum?
- What are petroleum products, and what is petroleum used for?
- How many gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel are made from one barrel of oil?
- Does EIA project energy production, consumption, or prices for individual states?
- What is U.S. electricity generation by energy source?
- Does EIA have data on the type or quality of crude oil?
- What countries are the top producers and consumers of oil?
- How much oil consumed by the United States comes from foreign countries?
- Does EIA have county-level energy production data?
- What other motor gasoline consumption data sources are available?
- Does EIA have information on unplanned outages of U.S. infrastructures?
- How much of the crude oil produced in the United States is consumed in the United States?
- Does the world have enough oil to meet our future needs?
- How much petroleum does the United States import and export?
- What is the difference in product supplied among EIA publications?
- How do we calculate product supplied?