About Jodi
Jodi is an MCP server for energy analysts and researchers, providing monthly JODI-Oil and JODI-Gas data by country. It marks unreported months explicitly and supports both series lookups and cross-country change comparisons.
Key features
- 01Query monthly oil series by country
- 02Query monthly gas series by country
- 03Compare changes across countries
- 04Check country coverage and reporting dates
- 05Mark unreported months explicitly
Use cases
- 01Analyze national oil output and trade
- 02Compare changes in gas imports and exports
- 03Check country coverage and reporting gaps
MCP support
It exposes oil and gas series, comparison, and country-coverage tools to MCP clients, and can also run as a local stdio MCP server.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-jodi https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-jodi":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-jodi":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-jodi":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-jodi":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project README@pipeworx/jodi
Monthly oil and natural gas production, consumption, imports, exports and closing stocks by country — the JODI-Oil and JODI-Gas World Databases, self-reported to the Joint Organisations Data Initiative (APEC/Eurostat/GECF/IEA/IEF/OLADE/OPEC/UNSD). Global coverage (~100+ countries), including every Gulf producer (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran).
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1882+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.
Tools
jodi_oil_series(country, product?, flow?, months?, end_month?)— one country's monthly oil series (crude/NGL/other/total-crude, or a refined product), with reporting gaps marked explicitly.jodi_gas_series(country, flow?, months?, end_month?)— same for natural gas (production, imports/exports split LNG vs pipeline, demand, stocks).jodi_oil_compare(countries?, product?, flow?, months_back?, end_month?)— rank countries by change in a series between the latest reported month and N months earlier. Defaults to the Gulf producer set. Answers both "which Gulf producers raised output most this quarter" (months_back: 3) and "Saudi exports vs a year ago" (countries: ["Saudi Arabia"], months_back: 12) — the same comparison with a different country list.jodi_gas_compare(countries?, flow?, months_back?, end_month?)— same for gas.jodi_countries(commodity?)— which countries JODI-Oil/Gas cover, and each one's earliest/latest reported month.
Auth
Keyless. There is no upstream key to bring.
Data sources
- https://www.jodidata.org/oil/database/data-downloads.aspx — JODI-Oil annual CSVs (primary: crude/NGL/other/total-crude; secondary: refined products), one file per year, 2002-present.
- https://www.jodidata.org/gas/database/data-downloads.aspx — JODI-Gas,
one CSV covering its whole 2009-present history, resolved through JODI's
own
https://api.publisher.jodidata.org/web/files/gasJSON API rather than a hardcoded filename (the file has already been renamed once).
Ingested monthly by workers/data-pipeline/src/datasets/jodi.ts into
jodi_oil_observations / jodi_gas_observations (migration 161). Full
design notes — why a non-report is a missing ROW rather than a stored null,
and why only one of JODI's five published units survives ingest per flow —
live in the migration file and the dataset config; the short version:
- A missing month is never a zero. JODI is self-reported and coverage is
uneven — some countries report late, some skip months, some never report a
given series. Every tool here builds the full expected month range and
marks gaps
{reported: false, value: null}rather than only returning the rows that exist and letting the gap read as silence. - Units are pre-selected, not user-choosable. JODI publishes every value in 5 units; this pack keeps KBD (thousand barrels/day) for oil rate flows, KBBL (thousand barrels) for the two level flows (closing stocks, stock change — JODI itself marks KBD "not applicable" for both), and M3 (million cubic metres) for everything in gas.
- Country names are ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes; JODI's raw files carry the code
only, so this pack keeps its own code→name table (
COUNTRY_NAMESinsrc/index.ts) covering every code seen in either database.
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"jodi": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/jodi/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1882+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/jodi_oil_series \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"country":"Saudi Arabia","flow":"exports","months":24}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/jodi_oil_series. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"jodi": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-jodi"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-jodi
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Jodi data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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