The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed today that the US crude inventories fell 2 million barrels to reach a total of 492.4 million barrels during the past week, beating analysts' forecasts of a rise by 1.9 million barrels.
The gasoline stockpiles rose 700,000 barrels to a total of 228.2 million, and distillate stockpiles fell 3.2 million barrels to a total of 172.8 million.
While the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed yesterday in preliminary data that inventories fell by around 831,000 barrels during same period.