Commercial oil declined to 172.0 thousand barrels for the last week in the U.S. - forecasts of API

/IRBIS, October 15, 09/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ending on October 9, commercial oil reserves in the U.S. declined by 172.0 thousand barrels to 339.2 m. barrels. Gasoline inventories fell to 2.7 million barrels to 210.4 million barrels, distillate stocks rose by 219.0 thousand barrels to 168.0 million barrels. American Petroleum Institute is a national non-governmental organization engaged in researches on all aspects and ensures management activities on issues oil and gas industry. Today is scheduled for release official data of State Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Department of Energy on the weekly change in commercial stocks of crude oil and petroleum products in the country. According to the previous EIA report oil reserves in the U.S. for the week ending on Oct 2, fell by 1.0 million to 337.4 million barrels. At the same time gasoline inventories rose by 2.9 million barrels to 214.4 million barrels, distillate stocks - at 700.0 thousand barrels to 171.8 million barrels. [2009-10-15]