U.S. crude stocks last week fell by 5.3 million barrels - official EIA data

/IRBIS, December 23, 2010/ - Energy Information Administration (EIA) of U.S. Department of Energy has published a report that the oil reserves in the U.S. for the week that ended Dec. 17, 2010, decreased by 5.333 million barrels to 340.685 million Gasoline inventories rose by 2.400 million barrels to 217.173 million, while distillate stocks fell by 58 thousand barrels to 160.716 million. Earlier, the American Petroleum Institute (API) has published its report, where it was stated that during the period, commercial U.S. crude stocks fell by 5.796 million barrels to 342.014 million Gasoline inventories also fell by 2.905 million barrels to 219.513 million, and stocks distillates rose by 16 thousand barrels to 161.257 million [2010-12-23]