Commercial oil in the U.S. last week fell by 3.7 million barrels - API forecasts

/IRBIS, December 23, 09/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ending December 18, commercial crude oil reserves in the U.S. fell by 3.7 million barrels to 328.8 million gasoline inventories fell by 1.1 million barrels to 215.9 million, while distillate stocks - at 745.0 thousand barrels to 165.1 million. American Petroleum Institute is national non-governmental organization engaged in research on all aspects and ensures that activities are management issues in the field of 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 December 11 fell by 3.7 million barrels to 332.4 million gasoline inventories rose 0.9 million barrels to 217.2 million, while distillate stocks fell to 2,9 million barrels to 164.4 million [2009-12-23]