Oil inventory in the United States were high of 1,328 million barrels to 443.158 million barrels last week, the country’s Energy Department (DOE) in the country reported on Wednesday.
Analysts consulted by The Wall Street Journal They predicted a drop of 800 thousand barrels.
Gasoline stocks were high of 816,000 barrels to 225.522 million barrels, while the projection was down 1.1 million barrels.
Already the distillates advanced 579 thousand barrels, to 10.132 million barrels. The forecast was a decrease of 1.3 million barrels.
The rate of use of refinery capacity rose from 90.2%to 90.7%, slightly exceeding the projection of analysts, rising 90.6%.
Petroleum stocks at the Cushing Distribution Center dropped 457,000 barrels to 23.435 million barrels. Daily average oil production rose slightly to 13.392 million barrels a week.
Special reserves inventories, known as SPRs, rose 843,000 barrels to 400.493 million barrels.
*With information from Dow Jones Newswires
