That is the question I have been asking.
At this time of year, with high summer demand, there are always pipeline, maintenance, plant issues conveniently taking energy production conveniently off line in peak demand time.
Recently we have an explosion at a major Texas LNG exporting facility where nat gas dropped 33% instantly. Now we have the EIA oil numbers delayed because of "power issues". See below quote.
BS! I used to be in the tech business and government computing centers (and "cloud" computing) have multiple redundant and backup systems that can take major failures where a failure is easily absorbed. So either:
1.) the government facilities are really poor- possible but remote.
2.) as widely speculated, the Russians are attacking our tech infrastructure. Again possible but unlikely. They recently launched a rocket against Ukraine and the darn thing turned around and blew the their own launch crew and facility up. They are not that technologically advanced as some would have you believe.
3.)the usual crew of market "makers" (really manipulators) are doing their thing. I vote for this one! They are making a fortune and don't want us to know just how much oil there really is - not little!
"The data was not published last week after the EIA discovered “a voltage irregularity, which caused hardware failures on two of our main processing servers.”