Commercial stocks of petroleum in the U.S. last week fell by 1.8 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, August 26, 2010/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) has published a report according to which for the week ending August 20, 2010, commercial oil reserves in the U.S. decreased by 1,847 million barrels to 356.758 million gasoline inventories increased by 692.0 thousand barrels to 226.229 million, while distillate stocks - at 1,889 million barrels to 169.601 million American Petroleum Institute - is 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 on Aug. 13, 2010, a decrease of 800.0 thousand barrels to 354.2 million, gasoline inventories also fell by 100.0 thousand barrels to 223.3 million, and Distillate stocks rose by 1.1 million barrels to 174.2 million [2010-08-26]