Commercial U.S. crude stocks last week rose 3.1 million barrels - API

/IRBIS, December 30, 2010/ - The American Petroleum Institute (API) published a report according to which for the week ended Dec. 24, 2010, commercial U.S. crude stocks rose by 3.058 million barrels to 345.072 million Gasoline inventories declined by 3.139 million barrels to 216.374 million, while distillate inventories - at 1.383 million barrels to 162.640 million. American Petroleum Institute - a national non-governmental organization dedicated to research all aspects of operations and provides management issues in the oil and gas industry. Today is expected to publish a report Energy Information Administration (EIA) U.S. Department of Energy. According to the previous report, U.S. crude stocks for the week ended Dec. 17, 2010, decreased by 5.796 million barrels to 342.014 million Gasoline inventories also fell by 2.905 million barrels to 219.513 million, while distillate stocks rose by 16 thousand barrels up to 161.257 million [2010-12-30]