US EIA Reports Increased Level Of Interest

New Program to Improve Access to Weekly Petroleum Data; Final Tests Scheduled Next Week

January 7, 2005 — On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) will implement a new program, called Gatekeeper, designed to improve Internet access to weekly petroleum data.

The recent high level of interest in the EIA’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR) has resulted in a substantial increase in activity on the EIA web site when the report is released at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesdays. This activity has sometimes made it difficult for customers to access WPSR data at release time, principally because repeated attempts by web site users to access the new data in the minutes just prior to release use an excessive amount of bandwidth.

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