Commercial oil in the U.S. last week fell by 1.8 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, January 22, 2010/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ending January 15, 2010, commercial oil reserves in the U.S. fell by 1.8 million barrels. Gasoline inventories rose by 667.0 thousand barrels, while distillate stocks fell by 3.4 million barrels. 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 at Jan. 8, 2010, rose by 3.7 million barrels to 331.0 million. This gasoline inventories rose 3.8 million barrels to 223.5 million, and distillate stocks by 1.4 million barrels to 160.4 million. [2010-01-21]