The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed today that the US crude inventories fell by 2.1 million barrels to reach a total of 532.3 million barrels during the past week, beating forecasts of rising by 3.5 million.
The gasoline stockpiles rose 2.8 million barrels to a total of 257.8 million, and distillate stockpiles rose by 9.9 million barrels to a total of 174.3 million.
While the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed yesterday in preliminary data that inventories fell by 483,000 barrels during same period.