The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed today that the US crude inventories rose 5.7 million barrels to reach a total of 539.2 million barrels during the past week, beating forecasts of a drop by 3.7 million barrels.
The gasoline stockpiles fell 4.8 million barrels to a total of 251.7 million, and distillate stockpiles rose 3.1 million barrels to a total of 177.3 million.
While the American Petroleum Institute (API) showed yesterday in preliminary data that inventories rose 2 million barrels during same period.