Commercial stocks of petroleum in the U.S. last week rose by 5.9 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, August 18, 2010/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ending August 13, 2010, commercial oil reserves in the U.S. increased by 5.866 million barrels to 358.605 million, gasoline inventories also rose by 2.026 million barrels to 225.537 million, while distillate stocks - at 2.051 million barrels to 167.712 million American Petroleum Institute - a national non-governmental organization dedicated to research all aspects and ensure that activities are management issues in the field of oil and gas industry. Today is expected to publish a report the Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Department of Energy. According to previous report, the oil reserves in the U.S. for the week ended August 6, 2010, decreased by 3.0 million barrels to 355.0 million This motor gasoline inventories increased by 400.0 thousand barrels to 223.4 million, while stocks of distillates - on 3,4 million barrels to 173.1 million [2010-08-18]