HEATING-OIL FUTURES HISTORY — Heating oil futures update: 4.9139 USD per gallon, +3.34%, using the latest public quote available in the 15 September 2026 snapshot.

Distillate-market facts saved at publication

  • Heating oil: 4.9139 USD per gallon
  • Previous close: 4.7553 USD per gallon
  • Change: +3.34%
  • Contract: Heating Oil Nov 26
  • Source timestamp: 08:37 UTC, 15 September 2026

What “heating oil” meant here

The futures contract was a distillate-market benchmark connected to diesel and heating-fuel economics; it was not a household retail bill. Contract specification, delivery location, active month, wholesale basis and taxes separate the quoted series from a consumer price. A later expiry could also carry another value because inventories and seasonal demand differed.

Putting the move in context

Heating oil is a distillate-fuel futures benchmark. CapKet treats Heating oil direction and magnitude as separate facts from market narrative. Any causal claim needs its own primary evidence and matching time window. The percentage was descriptive rather than a proof of cause. Refinery outages, freight demand, stock levels or weather may matter, but CapKet does not assign one of those explanations to this tick unless the contemporary source trail supports it.

What the market was watching

Watch distillate inventories, refinery operations, freight demand and weather. No current trading conclusion should be drawn from this old Heating oil value. Its purpose is to document what the cited sources displayed at the publication snapshot. Comparisons also needed the same unit and contract month. A continuation series rolling forward could create a visible change even when nearby physical conditions had not moved by the same amount.

Heating-oil timeline

The preceding Heating oil entry was ULSD futures rise 0.09% to $4.9636 a gallon.

Preservation method

The reconstructed page keeps the original data fields, source links and 2026-09-15T08:48:23.724Z timestamp. CapKet wrote the contract explanation itself, copied no chart or third-party commentary, and left the publication date and permanent URL unchanged.

Risk and delay notice: Distillate futures can be volatile and leveraged. Public data may lag or be revised; this is not a recommendation, retail quote or executable transaction price.