## Built for AI/ML consumers
Most public energy datasets were assembled for traders, regulators, or
journalists — not for ML pipelines. Schemas drift, primary keys are
ambiguous, joins require domain folklore.
OilPriceAPI is built the other way around. The maintainer has been working
in AI/ML since the 1990s — through expert systems, classical ML, the
deep-learning wave, and now LLM agents — and the platform is engineered
specifically for those consumers: stable schemas, normalized join keys,
geocoded coordinates, deduplication at ingest, and a single canonical
operator name per company.
The result is data you can `load_dataset()` and feed straight into a
pipeline without a six-week cleanup phase.